This document provides a summary of the novel "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. It discusses the plot, in which the main character Balram narrates his life story of rising from poverty to become a successful businessman in India. It analyzes several symbols and metaphors used in the novel, including Balram's view of himself as a "white tiger," the Black Fort, the chandelier, and the metaphor of the "rooster coop." The document also provides biographical information about the author Aravind Adiga and an overview of some of his other works.

1. Name: Trivedi Disha Hiteshbhai
Paper no: 13 (The New Literature)
Topic: Use of symbols in ‘The White Tiger’.
Year: 2015-2017
M.A.Sem=4
Submitted to: Smt. S.b.gardi department of English
M. K. Bhavnagar University

2.  Aravind Adiga was born in madras in
1974 and was raised party in
Australia.
 Winner of the Man Booker prize in
2008 for this novel.
 Adiga began his career as a financial
journalist.
 His Works:
- The White Tiger
- Last man in Tower
- Between the Assassinations
- Outcast Breed
- Selection Day

3.  Balram Halwai narrates his life in a letter, written 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 an entrepreneur.
 Balram was born in the rural village of Laxmangarh, where he
lived with his grandmother, parents, brother and extended family.
He is a smart child but is forced to leave school in order to help
pay for his cousin's dowry and begins to work in a teashop with
his brother in Dhanbad. While working there he begins to learn
about India's government and economy from the customers'
conversations. Balram describes himself as a bad servant but a
good listener and decides to become a driver.

4.  Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant, Philosopher,
Entrepreneur, Murderer Over the course of seven nights,
by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram
tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to
be a success in life having nothing but his own wits helps
him along.

5.  The White Tiger
 The Darkness
 The Black Fort
 The Chandelier
 Honda Citizen
 The Rooster Coop

6.  Balram’s natural intelligence and
integrity set him apart from his
peers from an early age. On one
occasion, his academic prowess so
impresses a visiting school inspector
that he officially calls him a “White Tiger”:
the most noble and intelligent animal in the jungle.
 Throughout his life, Balram’s concept of himself as a White
Tiger and as an exceptional person motivates him to advocate
for himself and fight for his own advancement. His conviction
that he is somehow special also causes him to feel exempt
from traditional moral and legal standards, empowered to live
life on his own terms.

7.  The poverty-stricken,
rural area of India
where Balram's village,
Laxmangarh is
located. It is fed by
The Ganges, “The
River of Death”, where
millions of India's dead
are cremated.

8.  The Black Fort was the only
thing of beauty in Balram’s
impoverished ancestral village.
The fort is a grand old building
on a hill above town,
constructed by foreign
occupiers years ago, which
both fascinated and frightened
Balram throughout his youth.
He claims that his ability to
appreciate its beauty marked
him early on as different from
his fellow villagers and showed
his destiny not to remain a
slave.

9.  Vintage chandelier
Hanging in Balram’s
Bangalore office. He
frequently looks to it
for “inspiration,”
confessing to “staring”
for long periods of
time. The chandelier
comes to symbolize
the “Light” of
Bangalore and
Balram’s new life.

10.  This is the more luxurious
of the 2 cars owned by the
Stork's family. When Balram
is 1st hired as a driver, he is
never allowed to drive this
car. When he is promoted
and able to drive the Honda,
he feels like he has “made it”
in life. Later in the story,
Balram secretly takes the car
out at night on his own,
pretending to be wealthy.

11.  A metaphor Balram employs
to describe the Indian
servant/master system. One day
in the marketplace, Balram sees
roosters being slaughtered next
to other live, caged roosters.
The roosters know they are next,
but they do not rebel. Balram
observes that servants in India
remain trapped in servitude –
but no one breaks out of the
“Rooster Coop” because of
family honour.

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