Belram was nicknamed the “white tiger” in class when the school inspector came in a suit to ask Belram if he can read, write, and to answer a question about the prime master. Belram said everything correctly, and the inspector said “in any jungle, what it is the rarest of animals the creature that comes along only once in a generation?” (30). Belram said the “the white tiger” (30). The passage is talking about Balram's character of being a successful man and being the rare one in the group that is smart.
Belram is a “young man, [he’s] intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this crowd of thugs and idiots”, and he is the rare one in the group. The people around are not good in school when “one boy after the other stood up and blinked at the wall”
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The white tiger is the rare one in the jungle while there are plenty of orange tigers.
The area where Belram comes from makes an exception and is a rarity for people “born and raised in darkness”, and how many people in the darkness do not experience the light like Belram (11). India is separated in “two countries”, “India of the light and an India of darkness” (12). The light is away from poverty and being successful, but there is limited amount in India. The light is the “ocean” that Belram says it is, and the ocean has clear water which the people get in the light. The place for the poor with horrible conditions that Belram calls the “black river” is the darkness.
The people in the darkness cannot get out of the poverty. You have to be smart like Belram showed to the school inspector. Belram's father could of have been able to fill his stomach and be in the light, but “a member of some other caste must have stolen it from him with the help of the police (54). It is hard for someone from the dark to get into the light without some
As we carry on with the story we come upon a character that goes by the name Robert Walton. He embarked on writing letters to his sister in England who goes by the name Margret. He states,” What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?” this quote comes from Walton’s first letter, it encloses that of light is a symbol of knowledge and discovery
He could only see by the light of a candle. Light also represents discovery. Not only does it represent discovery in this book, but also in life. When you discover something everyone knows the saying is a light bulb in your head going off. Equality 7-2521 and the golden one find a new discovery of light. They called it the power of light and we call it electricity. See, they discovered an old invention to use but a very new invention to them. This is so important because this discovery is what brings the climax of the story. The discovery of light is what brings pain to Equality 7-2521 and the Golden One at first when they are lashed, but in the end their discovery brought them to a house full of new and exciting things to them. Light made this story and light makes the world go
In the allegory, a slave is then brought out of the cave, in what Plato refers to as "he ascent of the soul into the intellectual world" (Jacobus 319). Once out of the cave the slave discovers that what he thought was real is not. He learns to comprehend all of these new images as real and true. Since he has been in the dark, both literally and metaphorically, the light blinds him.
The subtle symbolism of light and dark means more than the broad explanation of happy and sad: “…from within there appeared, in the first place, like
Balram attributes this to the corruption in the government, which allows it’s government facility to not function, causing his father’s death. His father’s death pains him but to all the others in his family, treated as a almost normal occurrence. To avoid any further of empathy, Balram hides behind euphemisms to describe acts that would require a genuine connection to be worthwhile. Having been hurt before he doesn’t want to be hurt again, which influences his opinions; and even the description of his life in India when he compares his life to the darkness and what he aspires to be––the light––is a euphemism based on how connected to others he must be. In the darkness, Balram’s family must all work together to survive––something that requires trust; which has been absent Balram’s entire life. The government is corrupt, the police have been bribed, hospitals don’t help the people and the schools don’t teach anything all because of the light. The light is corrupting the darkness (how ironic) and as a result, the world Balram is part of is corrupt, solely because of those who rule over it. Those that live in the light don’t allow all those that live in the darkness to rise up and become better. Balram never trusts his master: constantly believing that he would be replaced. To be able to see the world from a different perspective, you need to understand them; and this requires
In the novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga the main character, is Balram, one of the children in the “darkness” of India. Adiga sheds a new light on the poor of India, by writing from the point of view of a man who was at one time in the “darkness” or the slums of India and came into the “light” or rich point of view in India. Balram’s job as a driver allows him to see both sides of the poverty line in India. He sees that the poor are used and thrown away, while the rich are well off and have no understanding of the problems the poor people must face. The servants are kept in a mental “Rooster Coop” by their masters. The government in India supposedly tries to help the poor, but if there is one thing Adiga proves in The White Tiger, it is that India’s government is corrupted. Despite the government promises in India designed to satisfy the poor, the extreme differences between the rich and the poor and the idea of the Rooster Coop cause the poor of India to remain in the slums.
Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They live in Asia and belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard, and jaguar. Two major subspecies of the tiger are the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger. The tiger is thought to have originated in northern Asia during the Pleistocene Epoch.
In Heart of Darkness, there is a real contrast between what is light and what is dark. These contrasts work within a reality of civilized and savage. It appears that light represents the civilized, and dark represents the uncivilized, but truly, white is evil, and the dark is innocent and virtuous.
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger highlights his views of the injustice and poverty present in India’s class system. He does this through the perspective of Balram Halwai, a fictional village boy from Laxmangarh. In this epistolary novel, Balram narrates his life in the form of a seven-part letter addressed to Wen Jiabao, the premier of China. He describes how he escaped his caste, which was thought to be impossible, and became a successful entrepreneur after killing his own master. The inequality between rich and poor is an important motive of the story. This paper will go in depth into the representation of the poor, the motivation for it and the effects it has on the interpretation of the story.
Aravind Adiga in his psycho-social thriller, The White Tiger, explores issues that modern day India faces, ranging from social mobility to globalization, and morality to corruption. Adiga’s use of an epistolary novel allows his first person narrator to not only provide a commentary on the socio-political and geopolitical problems that India face, but also reflect on the effects of these problems on his own life. Adiga exploits the corruption in India and uses it as device to develop Balram’s character, as he journeys from “the darkness” to “the light”. It is true that Balram becomes increasingly corrupted, and at some points the reader may sympathise with him, however at other points, his actions cannot be justified. Growing up, Balram is tainted
Aravind Adiga in his debut novel The White Tiger, which won the Britain’s esteemed Booker Prize in 2008, highlights the suffering of a subaltern protagonist in the twenty first century known as materialism era. Through his subaltern protagonist Balram Halwai, he highlights the suffering of lower class people. This novel creates two different India in one “an India of Light and an India of Darkness” (Adiga, p. 14). The first one represents the prosperous India where everyone is able to dream a healthy and comfortable life. The life of this “Shining India” reflects through giant shopping malls, flyovers, fast and furious life style, neon lights, modern vehicles and a lot of opportunities which creates hallucination that India is competing with western countries and not far behind from them. But, on the other side, the life nurtures with poverty, scarcity of foods, life taking diseases, inferiority, unemployment, exploitation and humiliation, homelessness and environmental degradation in India of darkness.
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger published in 2008, and a winner of Booker Prize examines the issues of religion, caste, loyalty, corruption, urbanization and poverty in India. The novel besides receiving critical acclaim was also lambasted by some in India for giving in to western prejudices and playing up to their image of a poverty stricken, slum governed country. Some even went to the extent of calling it a western conspiracy to deny the country’s economic progress. It seems ...
The tiger is known for being a wild and dangerous animal, but also its beauty. In relations to India this could be a reference to the beautiful culture which enriches our experience of India, but also some of the downsides that it has like poverty and unemployment and other sociological factors which paint a grim picture of Indian life.
The Bengal tiger is a carnivorous, mammal primarily from India. It lives in habitats such as the coniferous Himalayan Forest, the mangroves of the Sunderbans, the hills of the Indian Peninsula, or the forests of Rajasthan and Northern India. At one time Bengal tigers were scattered throughout Asia. Now they are generally found in India and some regions of Bangledesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar. There is approximately 4,000 alive in the wild now, and about 300 are in captivity in zoos around the world.