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This task is related to 'The White Tiger'🐅 by Aravind Adiga.
Abstract:-
The White Tiger is the debut novel of Aravind Adiga, which brought him Man Booker Prize in 2008. Although Indian economy has grown steadily over the last two decades, its growth has been uneven when comparing different social groups, economic groups, geographic regions, rural and urban areas. The novel studies the contrast between India’s rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram's, Who comes from crushing rural poverty. It is told in the form of a series of letters from an entrepreneur living in Bangalore named Balram Halwai to Wen Javano, the premier of China. The story moves from a boy who broke coal in a tea shop to a driver and servant to a wealthy family, and then to a self-made “entrepreneur”.
Key words: global economy, rural poverty, uneven social groups.
How far do you agree with the Indian represented in the novel the white Tiger?
The novel studies the contrast between India’s rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram's, Who comes from crushing rural poverty.
“At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal in justice of society(Indian). That’s what I’m trying to do-it is not an attack on the country, it’s the greater process of self-examination” (“Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga”, The Telegraph).
The White Tiger is presented as an epistolary novel, a series of letters written over the period of seven nights. It is an interesting ploy used by the author to keep the readers glued to the novel. Balram's is writing to the premier of china, Wen Jiabao, Due to visit the city of Bangalore, Balram is living in, in a week’s time. Balram does have something to get off his chest, of course, and his letters to the Chinese premier are a confession of sorts. Balram tells his life-story, recounting how he got to where he now is successful entrepreneur in Bangalore. From very beginning we learnt that he is a wanted man, as he writes about a poster describing him and alluding to his misdeeds. And soon he reveals what crime he has on his hands, too.
Aravind Adiga in an interview with the BBC said;
“The White Tiger is the story of a poor man in today’s India, one of the many hundreds of millions who belong to the vast Indian under class; people who live as labourers, as servants, as chauffeurs and who by and large do not get represented in Indian entertainment, in Indian films, in Indian books. My hero-or rather my Protagonist-Balram Halwai is one of these faceless millions of poor Indians”
Social groups involve two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity or objective similarity. In the case of Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger,’ the vast numbers of different social groups are represented in several different ways. Drivers in India are an example of a social group mentioned throughout the novel. Adiga’s interpretation of each driver or group of drivers in the novel are viewed through the eyes of Balram Halwai, the main character of the novel, who goes from living on the streets, to becoming a driver, to developing into an entrepreneur of his own driving company.
Apart from that he satires on the the Indian systems major like
- Indian Education system
- Indian Marriage system
- Way of becomes Successful entrepreneur
- Way of doing the Business
- Bosom
- Servitude nature of Humans
- Indian Police system
- Joint family living system
Almost every field or aspects of Indian peoples and their way of living life is covered by Adiga in this novel.
Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches' ?
This story is told by the central character Balram Halwai who moves from rags to riches. Rags to rich means a journey of becoming poor to rich. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire the protagonist jamal malik's story and Adiga's The white tiger are both similar in the same narrative about the journey of becoming rags to rich. Balram was a middle class Halwai son who wrote letters on becoming a famous entrepreneur. Though he would become successful because of murdering of his master and stalled his name and money.
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 a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meaning out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The white Tiger ? How?
To deconstruct the text or writers own writing is one of the prominent key features of postmodern novels. Adiga and Julian Barnes' way of narrating the things at some level is similar. For example, the first character narrates the story and the letter on by him / her self deconstructs the narrative. Like in Adiga's the white tiger,
As the novel begins, in the first sense Balram talks about Mr. Jiabao. He says that,
“Neither you nor I can speak English but there are some things that can be said only in English”.
It means that Adiga knows about the use of language in a better way.
This novel we also deconstructed on the basis of class conflict. Balram is a servant and also driver of Honda city car. In India servants are always faithful to his master, like Hanuman. So here this idea of a loyal or faithful servant of his master was deconstructed very artfully.
With ref to screening of the Netflix adaptation:
1) Write review of the film adaptation of The White Tiger
2)Have you identified any difference in the novel and the adaptation? Does it mark any significant difference in the overall tone and texture of the novel?
3) David Ehrlich in his review wrote this- Ramin Bahrain's Netflix Thriller is a Brutal corrective to 'Slumdog Millionaire' why is it a 'corrective' ? What was the error in Slumdog Millionaire that it was corrected?
‘The White Tiger’ Trailer: An Indian Servant Won’t Wait for a ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
The main character of “The White Tiger,” a poor, Indian servant who rises to become a powerful entrepreneur, says there’s no “Slumdog Millionaire”-type game show that’s going to break him out of his poverty. The only thing he can do is seize his opportunity.
That’s the set up for Ramin Bahrani’s new film “The White Tiger,” which is based on the best-selling novel by Aravind Adiga and co-stars Priyanka Chopra-Jonas. Newcomer Adarsh Gourav narrates his own epic story about how he goes from being a driver for a wealthy man played by Rajkummar Rao to finally rebelling against the class system and becoming his own master.
“Here in India, there are only two kinds of people, those with big bellies and those with small bellies,” Gourav’s character says. “I was trapped. I don’t believe for a second there’s a million rupee game show I can win to get out of here.”
The White Tiger” is yet another buzzy awards contender for Netflix arriving this winter that also includes films like “Mank,” “The Midnight Sky,” “Hillbilly Elegy” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” This film is written and directed by “99 Homes” director Bahrani and is executive produced by Ava DuVernay and Chopra-Jonas.
Netflix will debut “The White Tiger” first in theaters in December followed by a launch on the streaming service on January 22.
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