BOOK SUMMARY The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit‚ blistering suspense‚ and questionable morality‚ told by the most volatile‚ captivating‚ and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. 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
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The White Tiger‚ Aravind Adiga chooses to give his protagonist a plethora of names to emphasize his changing personalities. Each name gives insight into the changing complexities of the protagonist’s identity. Adiga purposefully chooses the names in order to represent how the reader sees the protagonist. The multiple names come to represent the different sections of the protagonist’s life‚ from a young boy‚ to a servant‚ to a successful business entrepreneur. Throughout The White Tiger‚ Adiga uses
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Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul‚ another winner‚ is of Indian origin‚ but was not born in India.) He has written many short stories‚ essays‚ and published 3 books so far; namely‚ The White Tiger‚ Between the Assassinations‚ and Last Man in Tower. Be it essays or novels‚ the ‘Indian’ setting
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Balram finds that the liberated individuals have set up innumerable technology outsourcing companies in the India of Light that “virtually run America now” (The White Tiger 4). He lacks the education or business acumen to build a technology start-up. Instead‚ he puts his driving skills‚ knowledge of cars and drivers and the capital he has stolen from Ashok to good use by setting up a business that serves the need of the burgeoning IT industry. He provides them with unmatched logistical solutions
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Eoin Fitzsimons Humanities 1 Double Entry Journal 12/3/2014 “In 1947 the British left‚ but only a moron would think that we became free then.” (Adiga 18). The above quote is from White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. The speaker‚ Balram Halwai aka White Tiger is a self made man out of the so called darkness of India. He goes from working in a tea shop to working as a driver and after a few bad decisions becomes a self proclaimed entrepreneur. In his time period‚ India’s government is corrupt. Officials
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Ilayda Ozsan Enka Schools Candidate ID: 002546 - 029 TOK PRESENTATION PLANNING DOCUMENT My presentation dealt with the notions of mental illness‚ mental stability and psychiatry and their relations to norms. My principal question was the presupposition of a reasonable justification for the distinction between mental health and mental illness. The objective of the presentation was to make my classmates more aware of the volatile foundation of mental illness‚ which is supposedly mental health; yet
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Texts: The White Tiger and The Pearl Thesis: Both Balram from The White Tiger and Kino from The Pearl were born in poverty and living under the heavy oppressions of the upper class. The impact of the family drove them to fight against their own established fates and try to escape from the oppression of society. Book 1 - The White Tiger Balram was born in poverty. During his growth‚ he was deeply affected by his family‚ which developed a desire for him‚ to escape the poverty and be a successful man
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PROJECT ON “ARVIND MILL (THE PRODUCT MIX AND ITS STRATEGY)” Master of Commerce Semester-I (2013-2014) Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements For the award of degree of M.Com-I By Suraj Shridhar Tripathi Seat No: _______ Tolani College of Commerce Sher-e-Punjab society‚ Andheri (East)‚ Mumbai-400 093 PROJECT ON “ARVIND MILL (THE PRODUCT MIX AND ITS STRATEGY)” Master of Commerce Semester-I (2013-2014) Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements
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In many instances‚ living in a country does not mean one is living that country’s lifestyle. Throughout The White Tiger‚ the Stork and the Mongoose repeatedly remind Mr. Ashok that “This is not America” (Adiga 61). They do so because Mr. Ashok is constantly bringing up American habits and culture‚ which is the upbringing that Pinky Madam has. Even though Pinky Madam lives in India with Mr. Ashok‚ she never lives an “Indian” lifestyle; instead‚ she lives an American lifestyle in India protected by
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the government efforts‚ but is self –supporting. This need was realised by Dr. GOVINDAPPA VENKATASWAMY who founded the ARVIND EYE CARE HOSPITAL in 1976(based on the concept of McDONALDIZTION) because of his passionate concern to eradicate the problem of needless blindness in the India. This essay will analyse the impact of applying these principles of McDONALDIZATION to Arvind eye care hospital and will discuss the journey and achievements of this world largest eye care provider of the world while
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