This document provides a literary analysis and summary of Aravind Adiga's novel "The White Tiger". It discusses how the novel emphasizes the huge wealth disparity in India through the story of Balram Halwai, a poor villager who rises to become a successful entrepreneur. Key points made include that the poor are desperate to escape poverty, humor and imagery are used to portray this disparity, and the Ganges River is symbolized as bringing darkness rather than illumination due to the poverty along its banks. The document analyzes how Adiga depicts the realities and inequalities of modern Indian society through the character of Balram Halwai.

1. Name: Gohel Daya B
Roll NO : 3
Paper No :- 13 ( The New Literature )
Topic Name : critically evaluate Aravind Adiga’s white
tiger .
Sem :- 4
Email id : dayagohil47@gmail.com
Enrolment No : pg 14101014
Submitted to : Department of English.

2. Literary Analysis of ‘The White Tiger’
by Aravind Adiga
• “The White Tiger” that emphasize the huge
difference between the rich and the poor.
• The poor are so desperate that they are
willing to do almost anything to make it out
of poverty.
• which the story is told, the use of humor, the
patterns of imagery, and the end of the novel
emphasize the disparity in wealth and the
immorality that results.

3. The Reality of Half-Baked Indian:
• Half-Baked person who never get a chance
to complete their education like Balram and
our country is clapping for this. The country is
the full of the people like him Half-Baked. It
is democratic country what a tragedy is this!
He says that geometry textbook which every
tea-shop in this country uses to wrap its
snacks in.

4. Entrepreneurs are made from Half-
Baked clay
• beautiful way Adiga has depicted the real
picture of India by becoming mouth piece of
Balram Halwai alias MUNNA that India is two
countries in one.

5. Balram Halwai The White Tiger of
Laxmangarh:
• Balram Halwai is a poor Indian villager whose
great ambition dead him to the zenith of Indian
business culture, the world of the Bangalore
entrepreneur.
• He born in poor village in Laxmangarh.
• Like most families in this region in his family is
very poor. He lost his parents very early.

6. • His family neither gave him a name nor a date of
birth. They just called him “Munna” meaning
“boy” His father always wanted him to go
to school to learn how to write and to read in
reason to give him better possibilities. At the
school he got the name ”Balram” by his teacher.
• His further education he gets by eaves drooping
conversation of the tea house guests.
• There are early sings for the master of Mr. Ashok.

7. An India of Light:
The Ocean brings Light to my country. Every place on the map of
India near the ocean is well off. But [the Ganges] river brings
darkness to India—the black river”
• An India of Darkness:
‘Darkness’ and the rich are living in the ‘ Light’. This
metaphor shows how extremely different between
being poor and being rich.

8. • The White Tiger
• The Darkness
• The Black Fort
• The Chandelier
• Honda Citizen
• The Rooster coop
• Lizard
• Delhi city
• The White Tiger:

9. An India of
Light
• The ocean brings Light to my country. Every place on the
map of India near the ocean is well off. But [the Ganges]
river brings darkness to India—the black river”

10. An India of Darkness.
• The Mother Ganga the holy river of India, daughter of the
Vedas, river of illumination, protector of us all, breaker of
the chain of birth and rebirth .
• The holy river of India but here Balram symbolizes The
River Ganga as the Darkness of India because wherever it
flows that area is the darkness and poor.

12. To sum up……..
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a darkly humorous social commentary on modern
India.
In his novel, Adiga has potrayed the real picture of common India man who was
passing his life as other human beings in India but creating a different character of
Balram Adiga shows that if a person will do something great he or she will definitely
achieve his/ her goal in their lives.
Adiga has focused on the changing trends, mindsets, value systems in post globalization
Indian society. Adiga try to break the mould of stereotypical portrayal of rural life.