The white tiger

2. The White Tiger...
-Aravind Adiga
Name:- Ekta Jayswal
Class:- M.A.[SEM:- 4]
Roll No:- 11
Paper No.13:- The New Literature
Enrollment No:- PG2069108420180027
Batch:- 2017/19
Email Id:- ektajayswal12@gmail.com
Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad
S.B.Gardi English Department [M.K.B.U.]

3. About author...
 Aravind Adiga was born in
1974 in Chennai, India.
 His first novel was The White
Tiger. Which was published in
2008.
 He attended Columbia and
Oxford Universities. He
currently lives in Mumbai,
India.
 His articles have appeared in
Sunday Times, The
Newyorker, Financial Times
and the Times of India.

4.  He has also written
several other
books, such as:
Between the
Assassination
(2008) and Last
man in the
Tower(2011)..
 He won the Man
booker prize for
The White Tiger.

5.  In Arvind Adiga's novel, The White Tiger, the ability of the main
character, Balram, to reconcile incompatible events in his life is necessary
for the development of themes.
 This is shown through the journey of success displayed by Balram as he
goes from poor, hopeless Indian village boy, to self improved, and finally
to a successful entrepreneur.
 Ultimately, it is shown that becoming successful often requires one to
leave behind their past and make sacrifices in order to better their own
life.

6. Book Summary
 The story takes place in 1987 in
Laxmangarh, India.
 Laxmangarh is a small village that is
mostly surrounded in poverty.
 Balram Halwai a typical poor Indian village
boy.
 He grows up in poverty, he was very
intelligent but his parents can't afford
school.
 When Balram learns how to drive he goes
to New Delhi and gets hired as a
SERVENT. He destined to be a servant but
aspires to be more.
 Balram became driver to Mr. Ashok and
starts bettering his life, improving himself.

7. Poor Indian Village
Boy...
 Balram Halwai known as
 "Munna" and later on he
was known as a White
Tiger because he
represented success as
well as an unique person.
 Balram was "born and
raised in...the India of
Darkness".

8.  Balram narrates his life in a
letter, which he wrote in seven
consecutive nights and
addressed to the Chinese
Premier, Wen Jiabao.
 In his letter, Balram explains
how he, the son of a rickshaw
puller, escaped a life of
servitude to become a
successful businessman,
describing himself as a
successful entrepreneur.

9. To become successful,
Balram had to
change as a person.
 Balram "was corrupted from a sweet, innocent village fool into a
certified fellow full of debauchery, depravity, and wickedness".

10. What is the Rooster
Coop?
 The Rooster Coop is a metaphor for
the society Balram lives in.
 It is a place where the poor do not
have the ambition to break out of their
miserable lives, even though they are
oppressed.

11. The Roosters can "smell the blood
from above. They see the organs of
their brothers lying around them. They
know they're next. Yet they do not
rebel.They do not try to get our of the
coop".
 Balram escaped the Rooster Coop
and declared himself his "own
master".

12. Balram sacrificed his family in
order to become successful...
 "Only a man who is prepared to see his
family get destroyed - hunted, beaten, and
burned alive by his masters - can break out
of the coop"
 When Balram kills Mr. Ashok, he knows "that
Mr. Ashok's family was going to do sach
terrible things to his family.

13. Balram's Self
Improvement...
 Believed in himself since a young age; he knew he "was
not destined to stay a slave".
 The "worst part of being a driver is that you have hours
to while waiting for employer" but "if a driver sees his free
time as an opportunity, if he uses it to think, then the
worst part of his job becomes the best".
 Begins separating himself, acting like average Indian, saves
money and buys regular clothes, liquor and prostitutes.

14. Climbing the ladder
to the Light...
• Balram's ambition and
nonconformist ideals allows him
to ascend up the ladder to
society and into the 'Light'.
• Once Balram starts working at
the tea Shop, he eavesdrops on
the conversations of customers
and learns valuable information.

15. Into the Light...
 The immoral acts committed by Balram which resulted from an
oppressive environment leads to the creation of a successful
entrepreneur.
 Balram needs to kill Ashok, his master, in order to steal his money
and start up a business.
 This is due to his desire to break free to the Rooster coop.
 He justifies his immoral acts as it is the only path to success in a
society where the lower castes and poor are oppressed.

16. Rising Action...
 The rising action is when Balram learns how to drive a vehicle.
 The major conflict is Balram trying to escape the life of poverty.
 The climax of the story is when Pinky, Ashok and Balram hit a
person on the road and drive off. Pinky was driving drunk and
blamed it on Balram.
 The falling action is when Balram starts his own taxi driving
company.

17. To wind up...
 Balram faces many incompatible events in his life that he has to
overcome.
 The resolution of the story is Balram coming from nothing to
becoming wealthy and successful.
 People often need to make sacrifices and leave their old life behind in
order to better their own life.
 If people are unwilling to make sacrifices to contribute to a better
future, they will never be truly happy with their lives.