This document provides a critical analysis of Aravind Adiga's novel "The White Tiger" in 3 paragraphs. It summarizes that the novel examines serious issues like poverty, caste, and corruption in India through the narrative of Balram Halwai. It also analyzes how the novel satirizes the vast inequality between "India of Light" and "India of Darkness." Finally, it concludes that while Adiga's depiction of India may not be fully realistic, his work courageously exposes the plight of the poor in India's social and political system.

1. NAME:- SANJAYKUMAR N JOGADIYA.
SUBJECT:- THE NEW LITERATURES
TOPIC:- CRITICAL ANALYSIS THE WHITE TIGER
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2. INTRODUCTION
The White Tiger is Aravind
Adiga’s debut novel which won him
the prestigious 2008 Booker Prize.
After Salman Rushdie, Arundhati
Roy and Kiran Desai he becomes
the fourth Indian born author to
win this prize.
In this novel we can find a
humorous perspective of class
struggle in Indian society.

3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS
 It is not merely a novel but it examines some serious
issues like poverty, religion, caste and corruption in India.
Balram Halwai is a village boy who presents a fine
retrospective narration blended with a sense of realism in
the present novel.
 It is a kind of satire on democracy practiced in India. There
are two countries in a single nation. These two countries
are India of Light and India of darkness. In India of Light we
can find technology, strength, wealth and knowledge
whereas in India of darkness we can find weakness,
misery, illiteracy and destitution.
 The setting of the novel is at Laxmangarh which acts like a
sample village for Adiga. Here villagers are tormented and
exploited by the landlord. Corruption has also not spared
prestigious institutions like school.

4. CONTINUE
 A critical review of The white Tiger by Arvind Adiga Arvind
Adiga’s The white Tiger by Arvind Adiga explores the ideology
of overcoming the problem of poverty in India which is a
common and continuously prevailing ailment from the past
many decades.
 Among the revolutionary strategies of making India a perfect
economized country, the literature as well as Indian English
writers too play a vital role.
 Aravind Adiga focuses on the financial as well as societal
conditions in the contemporary world with respect to a common
lower middle class people, who always look at sky for filling
their stomach and eagerly for a small meal. and a shelter for
that day.
 India is a place where some people find no food to eat and no
shelter to rest as they.

5.  Balaram, the protagonist of the novel, the white Tiger who
was born in a very poor families in one of the cities of
Bihar. He worked as a chai-wallah for some days in his
home town and later over to Dhanbad and after that
subsequently to Delhi and settled as a driver. Balaram is
depicted as a normal middle class man just like any
middle class man.
 Infact, he was treated very well by his master irrespective
of the class distinction. Inspite of all these good gestures
of his boss.
 But the irony of the story of white tiger is Balaram,
murders the person who gives selery to him and his
family. Due to his rebellious thoughts against the rich,
Balram having the kind and generous nature of Ashok
Sharma due to his contemptuous nature towards the rich,
killed unthoughfully and unmindfully.

6.  There is a huge gap, between, pointing to servitude existing in
society and portraying a society of servitude.
 Almost everything that Adiga has written stands true but the
manner in which he has represented it in his book is both
fallacious and misleading. He seems to view a wound as the
whole body, a wrong convention as the whole society and a
problem as a whole nation.
 India is a nation too diverse to be represented realistically in a
single book and all that Adiga does is represent the problems
existing in India in “The White Tiger”.
 But then one may also raise the question whether an author
has the need to represent the whole nation in his book!

7.  Curiously, however, behind Adiga’s savage
representation of India lies the unpalatable truth of
the suffering Indian masses, entailed by the corrupt,
lopsided Indian administrative and social system,
firmly tilted in favor of the elite.

8. CANCLUTION
 His description may not be truly realistic, but his courageous
endeavour to expose the plight of the poor who remain
obliquely hidden in Indian democratic system is highly
commendable.
 His work is of paramount importance to realize the invisible
boundaries laid upon the progress of the poor and working
towards liberating them to the new horizon of equality,
education and prosperity.
 Among the Indian English writers Arvind Adiga’s The White
Tiger, navigates the economic flaws and financial ramblings in
the society in the work White Tiger. Arvind Adiga’s The white
Tiger won the booker prize for projecting the resemblance of
socio-economic factors in contemporary India.

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problems of identity a study of the God of small things
the inheritance of loss and the white tiger. 2012. 2021.
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 ellen. Literary Analysis of The White Tiger by Aravind
Adiga. 14 MAY 2012. 20 APRIL 2021.
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