The White tiger

 

Thanking Activity:  The White tiger

Introduction: 

    The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year.

Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974 is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

1. How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?

We cannot say that this novel represents real India throughout the narration of nation. Because Arvind Adiga himself uses this words “Half Baked” Indians, means what he takes about is story of half people not about all.

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like the one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about politics read in a newspaper while waiting for someone to come to an office, triangles and pyramids seen on the torn pages of the old geometry textbooks which every tea shop in this country uses to wrap its snacks in, bits of All India Radio news bulletins, things that drop into your mind, like lizards from the ceiling, in the half hour before falling asleep--all these ideas, half formed and half digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head, and I guess these half-formed ideas bugger one another, and make more half-formed ideas, and this is what you act on and live with.”

― Aravind Adiga, The White Tigere he has only half information and half point of views. So we can’t say that what he represents about India in his novel is true hundred present. Its story of half India.

2. Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches?

       Here in the novel Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches' white tiger there is a Balram richness is not progress but it's regress because he is morally corrupt man being. he do not any kind of morality .Person goes there because of they wanted to money . Balram How to reach where he is so that confessional mode telling the process because they done several wrong things.

 

3. "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have adeterminate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The White Tiger? How?

If we follow this statement then every book has that kind of some loose points from where we can find some meaning and we can deconstruct that idea given by writer himself into the text.

If we talk about 'The White Tiger' then it’s true that we can deconstruct this book with the help of some words like, in this book author himself uses this word like, “This book is Auto-Biography of half-baked Indians”.

Here we apply Derrida concept of Balram himself say I am half backed Indian a person with an incomplete understanding. Who sees the world is incomplete. You do not get 360 degree viewpoint of everything. It’s mean whole knowledge, only single dimension of happening and so it loose stone. we can break that half baked individual cannot have 360 degree of view.

                He calls himself half baked but he himself tells it becomes very strong, loose stone in the narrative with perhaps Adiga has beautifully put inside. Adiga says I am not saying, but it is balram's point of view. Balram is half baked Indian he is not anther angel to looking everything. Look from his that his perspective single view perspective, is easily broken can easily be deconstructed however learned one can be. This is balsam’s very narrow vision of looking at everything from where he speaks about that Adiga puts kind of loser stone in generation and he is there Indian ideas that critics should come from inside then it is better.

4. With ref to screening of the Netflix adaptation:

i) write review of the film adaptation of The White Tiger

ii) Have you identified any difference in the novel and the adaptation? Does it make any significant difference in the overall tone and texture of the novel?(ii) David Ehrlich in his review write this Ramin Bahrani's Netflix Thriller Is a BrutalCorrective to 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Why is ita 'corrective? What was the error in Slumdog Millionaire that it is corrected? 

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a social commentary on the effects of the huge gap between the wealthy and the poor in India.  This large gap creates instability that often leads to morality being compromised for individual gain.  The poor are so desperate that they are willing to do almost anything to make it out of poverty.  At the same time, the rich are so far removed from the plight of the poor that they become desensitized and corrupt.  The point of view from 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.

The difference between the rich and the poor, Balram explains, is that the poor have no choice but to be immoral while the rich do have a choice. “Allow me to illustrate the differences between Bangalore and Laxmangarh. Understand...it is not as if you come to Bangalore and find that everyone is moral and upright here. This city has its share of thugs and politicians. It’s just that here, if a man wants to be good, he can be good. In Laxmangarh, he doesn’t even have this choice” . In the future, Balram says Bangalore “might turn out to be a decent city where humans can live like humans and animals can live like animals”  The last lines of the novel accentuate again the justification of immorality through desperation. Balram says “I’ll never say I made a mistake that night in Delhi when I slit my master’s throat...It was worthwhile to know, just for a day, just for an hour, just for a minute, what it means not to be a servant”  

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a darkly humorous social commentary on modern India. In his novel, Adiga shows how a large disparity in wealth can move people to make immoral choices whether they are wealthy or poor. However, the novel ends on an optimistic note, with Balram both making it out of poverty and being able to make more moral choices. As Balram would say, ha!