suffered from social injustice for many years now. Aravind Adiga‚ choosing the voice of a person who belongs to the bottom of Indian society‚ portrays the real harsh India and gives an entirely different way of looking at the world‚ much harsher‚ real and cynical than the voice of those who belong to the middle class. Balram‚ the protagonist in this novel‚ works his way out of “the Darkness” having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Adiga brings awareness to the fraudulent India caste system
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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 the changing
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Theme in literature is the main idea or marking the meaning of literary ideas that may be stated implicitly or explicitly. In the book “White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga‚ there were themes that were mainly focused on the main character life that he was facing‚ and they were relatable to the real-life experiences. A theme does not only focus on the story itself‚ it allows the readers to make connections to real life experiences that they see or face in their life. There were a lot of themes that were
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Globalization and Freedom in India and Mainland China Throughout the novel “The White Tiger” by Indian writer‚ Aravind Adiga and the short story “ After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” by Chinese writer‚ Han Jin. Both mention about how globalization‚ the process of international integration arising from interchange of worldviews‚ products‚ and other aspects of culture‚ influences India and Mainland China. One of the plots in Adiga’s novel is Ashok and Balram moved to Gurgaon instead of going back
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In the novel The White Tiger wrote by Aravind Adiga‚ Balram‚ a young man‚ is struggling to make a name for himself in a society that is driven by the jungle law‚ where you eat or you get eaten up. That same law makes Balram do things that are not right to get what he wants. He could chose to move away from this mentality‚ but he doesn’t‚ in most situations he becomes the oppressor‚ also the society that he lives in makes it hard to move away from this mentality. As the people around him‚ Balram
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philosopher‚ once said‚ “Fatality is the excuse of souls without a will.” However‚ not everyone in the society‚ especially for lower class people‚ has the courage to change the fate‚ unless they are forced by some significant factors. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and The Pearl by John Steinbeck describe how do two people from a lower social class try to change their fates with the help of others. The impact of the family drove Balram in The White Tiger and Kino in The Pearl to fight against their own established
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The concept of globalisation has delimited the distance of the world‚ and it opened the numerous paths for every human being to get suitable opportunity for his livelihood in any part of the world. The migrates make efforts to adapt the culture of their inhabiting countries‚ and also try to get habitual with the mores of there. But the inherent culture makes them close to the spirit of their native countries‚ and originates the sense of cultural conflicts. They make every possible effort for sustaining
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Multiplicity of voices in Indian English novels:A Postcolonial study A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient‚ while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism‚ he gives a brief history of these phenomena he identifies and describes. He says‚ [t]aking the late eighteenth
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Society functions because of what people do within their societies. The impact of the way people interact with each other allows power to be distributed to individuals. Individuals experience many different ways of life as seen throughout many different aspects of literature. Humanity is based on the interaction between humans and how acts of compassion‚ especially from strangers‚ evokes emotion. All across the world exists class systems‚ and extensive ways of thinking that shape the people that
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Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People
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