They Have Come From The Fire

Balram, was a middle-aged man working hard to make something out of himself. The actions that Balram took were greatly affected by his desire to overshadow the fact that he was from the darkness, where only destitute and impoverished people come from. In the novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Balram’s origin and culture drove him to take drastic measures to remove the label of The Darkness, that said,”You’re only a stupid servant.” According to Balram’s culture, his destiny was to be a sweet-maker.. Nobody expected more than that from him. Also, Balram received relentless taunting from some of his employers due to them believing that since they were rich, they could do anything to lesser people.
Balram was a man from The Darkness. Nobody expected much Balram of him because of this. Balram himself said,”They have come from the Darkness too - you can tell by their thin bodies, filthy faces, by the animal-like way they live under the huge bridges and overpasses.” This is Balram speaking of his own home. He knew that the people that came out of the Darkness were the poor and destitute that the rich
At the time, the person wanted to do anything he could to show the bullies that he was just as good as them. The person wanted to prove a point. Because of discrimination in Balram’s culture, he was motivated to do anything to show his employers up. In the novel, after Pinky Madam ran over the child, Mr. Ashok attempted to try and get Balram to take the blame for it and sign a full confession for the crime. Luckily, no one had reported the child missing, so Balram didn’t have to ‘confess’ for Pinky Madam’s crime. Balram realized that Mr. Ashok was going to use him. He realized that he was expendable to Mr. Ashok. This point in the story played a huge part in helping Balram realize his dream to show Mr. Ashok and everyone that had ever taken advantage of, or mocked him, that he could be much greater than