"The White Tiger"

            The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 

Hello reader,

This blog is a part of my classroom activity on The white Tiger by Aravind Adiga. 

             

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

In this novel Balram Halwai tells story of real India and also protagonist of this novel . Adiga criticize India through the perspective of Balram Halwai . India represented as it is here and we can find that Adiga portrays various realistic and graphic picture . They describe about poverty of India and this kind of thing we can find in Balram's character who is live in Laxmangarh ,it is poor area . And Adiga criticize many aspects of Indian Society like  politics and education where teachers are not working properly and corruption in school by teacher.

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

Archetypes means a very typical example of a certain person or thing.And  yes I agree that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of rags to riches and we can see in some point  like Balram was an ordinary driver and from that position he has became an entrepreneur. But every people are not strong like Balram and not doing like Balram .So not every people becomes 'rags to riches' .

(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 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? 

 Yes, this text can be deconstructed and we can see that with the help of some words like author himself uses this word like, “This book is Auto-Biography of half-baked Indians”.So how can we rely on the narrator who himself calld half baked. So it deconstructs the entire narrative .



(4) Is it possible to read The White Tiger in context of Globalization? 

Yes, it is possible to read "The White Tiger" in the context of Globalization.we see some form of America seems to pop up in a key moment. for example when Balram is describing Ashok’s corruption on page 173,

        

        “you’ve got plenty of places to drinkbeer,
         dance, pick up girls, that sort of thing.
              A small bit of America in India.”



So here see effect of globalization clearly . “ An Insight into the Facets of a Globalized India” this article written by Rano Ringo and he talked very well that how globalized affects well in various fields like education and corruption .


Thank you...