Name: Jyotiba Gohil
Paper no: 13 The New literature
Topic: Critical Analysis of The White Tiger
Roll no:12
Submitted to: MKBU Department of English
Assiment on Critical Analysis of The White Tiger
Introduction
-First novel by Indian Author Arvind Adiga.
-It was first published in 2008 and won the 40 the man Booker prize in the same year.
The White Tiger is the novel by Indian Author Arvind Adiga. It was first published in 2008. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai a village boy.
Arvind Adiga is an Indian Australian writer and journalist. He was born on 23 October 1974 in Madras.
The white Tiger by Arvind Adiga tells two interrelated and interested stories about Balram and his success in life, his success causes moral decay.
The way writer has narrates the Nation and the character is a bit shock full to the readers. India has changed its face and the new face is full of crime and corruption.
The situation has become in such a way that none will believe another one easily. The image of India is changed and it is worse than the prior where the humanity and honesty was at the center of India's heart.
The novel presents the elements of darkness and light of India. It talks about the journey of darkness to light . How Balram Halwai, as a son of poor rickshaw puller,escaped a life of servitude to become a successful business man, describing himself as an Entrepreneur.
Balram being the hero of the novel talks about his life to Mr. Jiabao. He begins the story by telling about his service at tea shop with his brother at Dhanbad. While working in the tea shop he begins to learn about India's government and economy from the customer's conversation. Balram describe himself as bad servent and decides to be a Rich person.
He learns how to drive and got a job at Mr. Ashok 's house Balram moves to Delhi and worked at Mr. Ashok's place as driver cum servent being a servent he learned lot of things about the harsh reality of life.
The white Tiger is the form of seven letters to the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao who is planning to visit India and the letters are delivered by a Bangalore. Business man Balram Halwai. In these letters he tells him his Journey from Mumbai to the White Tiger, the portrayal of New India. When he becomes a driver of a rich family in New Delhi. He learns that success often involves corruption, cruelty and inhumanity.
Some fact of the Indian city.
It has no drinking water electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy or punctuality does have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs. Balram Halwai was a man of action and change.
-Balram Halwai alias Munnar
First day in school ,the teacher made all the boys line up come to his desk so he could put our names down in his register. When he told him what his name was , he gapeda at him.
Munna that's not a real name
He was right. It just means boy that's all I've got sir he said it was true he never been given a name. Didn't your mother name you?
He replied she is very ill. She lies bed and spews blood. She got no time to name him.
His father was rickshaw puller sir. He's got no time to name him. The teacher turned aside .
Now he talked about a place in India, at least a third of the country, a fertile place, full of rice fields and wheat fields and ponds in the middle of those
Fields choked with lotuses and water lilies and water buffaloes wading through the ponds and chewing on the lotuses and lilies. Those who live in this place call it the Darkness that India is two countries is one an India of light and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well off. But the river brings darkness to India the black River.
Which black River talking about Death ,whose banks are full of rich, dark,sticky mud whose grip traps everything that is planted in it, suffocating and choking and stunting it?
He talking about Mother Ganga, daughter of the Vedas, river of illumination, protector of us all, breaker of the chain of birth and rebirth. Everywhere this river flows, that area is the Darkness.
One fact about India is that you can take almost anything you hear about the country from the prime minister and turn it upside down and then you will have the truth about that thing. Now,you have heard the Ganga called the river of emancipation, and hundreds of American tourists come each year to take photographs of naked Sadhus at Hardware or Benaras and our prime minister will no doubt describe it that way to you, and urge you to take a dip in it.
Paper no: 13 The New literature
Topic: Critical Analysis of The White Tiger
Roll no:12
Submitted to: MKBU Department of English
Assiment on Critical Analysis of The White Tiger
Introduction
-First novel by Indian Author Arvind Adiga.
-It was first published in 2008 and won the 40 the man Booker prize in the same year.
The White Tiger is the novel by Indian Author Arvind Adiga. It was first published in 2008. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai a village boy.
Arvind Adiga is an Indian Australian writer and journalist. He was born on 23 October 1974 in Madras.
The white Tiger by Arvind Adiga tells two interrelated and interested stories about Balram and his success in life, his success causes moral decay.
The way writer has narrates the Nation and the character is a bit shock full to the readers. India has changed its face and the new face is full of crime and corruption.
The situation has become in such a way that none will believe another one easily. The image of India is changed and it is worse than the prior where the humanity and honesty was at the center of India's heart.
The novel presents the elements of darkness and light of India. It talks about the journey of darkness to light . How Balram Halwai, as a son of poor rickshaw puller,escaped a life of servitude to become a successful business man, describing himself as an Entrepreneur.
Balram being the hero of the novel talks about his life to Mr. Jiabao. He begins the story by telling about his service at tea shop with his brother at Dhanbad. While working in the tea shop he begins to learn about India's government and economy from the customer's conversation. Balram describe himself as bad servent and decides to be a Rich person.
He learns how to drive and got a job at Mr. Ashok 's house Balram moves to Delhi and worked at Mr. Ashok's place as driver cum servent being a servent he learned lot of things about the harsh reality of life.
The white Tiger is the form of seven letters to the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao who is planning to visit India and the letters are delivered by a Bangalore. Business man Balram Halwai. In these letters he tells him his Journey from Mumbai to the White Tiger, the portrayal of New India. When he becomes a driver of a rich family in New Delhi. He learns that success often involves corruption, cruelty and inhumanity.
Some fact of the Indian city.
It has no drinking water electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy or punctuality does have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs. Balram Halwai was a man of action and change.
-Balram Halwai alias Munnar
First day in school ,the teacher made all the boys line up come to his desk so he could put our names down in his register. When he told him what his name was , he gapeda at him.
Munna that's not a real name
He was right. It just means boy that's all I've got sir he said it was true he never been given a name. Didn't your mother name you?
He replied she is very ill. She lies bed and spews blood. She got no time to name him.
His father was rickshaw puller sir. He's got no time to name him. The teacher turned aside .
Now he talked about a place in India, at least a third of the country, a fertile place, full of rice fields and wheat fields and ponds in the middle of those
Fields choked with lotuses and water lilies and water buffaloes wading through the ponds and chewing on the lotuses and lilies. Those who live in this place call it the Darkness that India is two countries is one an India of light and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well off. But the river brings darkness to India the black River.
Which black River talking about Death ,whose banks are full of rich, dark,sticky mud whose grip traps everything that is planted in it, suffocating and choking and stunting it?
He talking about Mother Ganga, daughter of the Vedas, river of illumination, protector of us all, breaker of the chain of birth and rebirth. Everywhere this river flows, that area is the Darkness.
One fact about India is that you can take almost anything you hear about the country from the prime minister and turn it upside down and then you will have the truth about that thing. Now,you have heard the Ganga called the river of emancipation, and hundreds of American tourists come each year to take photographs of naked Sadhus at Hardware or Benaras and our prime minister will no doubt describe it that way to you, and urge you to take a dip in it.
“I swam through the pond, walked up the hill, went into the doorway, and entered the Black Fort for the first time. There wasn’t much around—just some broken walls and a bunch of frightened monkeys watching me from a distance. Putting my foot on the wall, I looked down on the village from there. My little Laxmangarh. I saw the temple tower, the market, the glistening line of sewage, the landlord’s mansions—and my won house, with that dark little cloud outside—the water buffalo. It looked like the most beautiful sight on earth. I leaned out from the edge of the fort in the direction of my village—and then I did something too disgusting to describe to you. Well, actually, I spat. Again and again. And then, whistling and humming I went back down the hill. Eight months later, I slit Mr. Ashok’s throat."
Balram, 36
The Black Fort, which sits on a hill over Balram's village, serves as a significant symbol in the text, representing Balram's aspirations to escape the "Darkness" into the "Light." He leaves no ambiguity as to what the symbol represents. As a boy, he was too frightened to explore the Fort. However, here, returning to Laxmangarh after having been hired as driver, he not only approaches the Fort, but in fact spits down at his village from that vantage. It is no accident that he had to cross through water to arrive at the Fort, indicating a type of baptism into a new man. He has overcome the fears that limited him as a boy, and thereby paved the the path for his ultimate escape. He makes it clear that escape will later be facilitated both through a repudiation of his family (symbolized by his spitting here) and through his murder of Ashok. Returning later in his narrative to this same image, Balram reveals that he now imagines himself in that moment as a version of the poet Iqbal's Devil, rejecting the creation of God in order to fashion his own identity.
We came to an enclosure with tall bamboo bars, and there—seen in the interstices of the bars, as it paced back and forth in a straight line—was a tiger. Not any kind of tiger. The creature that gets born only once every generation in the jungle. I watched him walk behind the bamboo bars. Black stripes and sunlit white fur flashed through the slits in the dark bamboo; it was like watching the slowed-down reels of an old black-and-white film. He was walking in the same line, again and again—from one end of the bamboo bars to the other, then running around and repeating it over, at exactly the same pace, like a thing under a spell. He was hypnotizing himself by walking like this—that was the only way he could tolerate this cage. Then the thing behind the bamboo bars stopped moving. It turned its face to my face. The tiger’s eyes met my eyes, like my master’s eyes have met mine so often in the mirror of the car. All at once, the tiger vanished."
Balram, 237
In this scene, Balram confronts a physical manifestation of his inner self, the White Tiger. Encountering this twinned version of himself in one of the novel's many explorations of dualities, he is overwhelmed. The spiritual nature of the encounter is further stressed when he faints and then reawakens, in a type of rebirth. The moment occurs during the psychological upheaval that precedes the murder, and is the final hurdle he must overcome to find the strength for that atrocity. Seeing the majestic, rare creature with whom he so identifies trapped in the cage finally emboldens Balram to embrace his own inner White Tiger in order to triumph over the Lamb, Ashok. Only in this way, he realizes, can he break free of the cage that is the Darkness
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