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Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger

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Aravind Adiga’s first novel is “The white Tiger”. The Novel discusses about the globalization and upgrading in India which mash the countryside economy with poverty. “The White Tiger” is dictated by the leading role Balram Halwai, is an Indian from impoverished society. In India people experience the domination of Americanized social structure. Culture in India led to Great social, judicial and moral corruption and imbalance. “The White Tiger” takes the form of a series of letters written by Balram Halwai to Wen Jiabao, the chinese prime minister. In that letter, he describes his journey to becoming a successful business man. Balram is a problematical man because he leaded his life as a servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram Halwai was born in a poor Indian family at a village called ‘Laxmangarh’. The village ‘Laxmangarh’ dominated by four heartless landlords known as the Wlid Boar, the Stork, the Buffalo and the Raven. Balram’s father is a struggling rickshaw puller so he enforced to stop his studies and joined in a tea shop as an assistant. His mother died when he was young and he is brought up by his grandmother named Kusum. Balram at first called as Munna which means boy because his family didn’t worried about his name. He did not have name until his school teacher call him …show more content…

The main theme of corruption which Aravind Adiga wants to reveal the flaming issue of Adarsh building cheat and 2G spectrum corruption are the example which brings seriousness among us in the growing corruptional world. He reveals the corruption in this novel starts from the beginning. The government program gave every school boy roits, yellow dal or pickles at lunch time but school teachers had stolen their lunch money. It indicates the corruption begins at the school level. Adiga pointed the corruption from the school level. Balram

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