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REVIEW                                              THE WHITE TIGER

 

The White tiger, written by Arvin  Adiga, tell us  Balram’s,  the main character, life.

He  was born in Laxmangarh, a rural village  in “the Darkness”, the most impoverished area of rural India.

Balram narrates his life in a letter which  he wrote in seven nights and sent it to  the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The  protagonist, begins describing his life in his village with his extended family. He had to leave  the school in order to earn some money to help his family. In the first time, he  started to work in a teashop with his brother in Dhanbad, but he did not like being a servant and decided  later,  to become a driver.

As a driver, he worked in New Delhi with a local land lord, named Mr. Ashok. As soon as he found out  Mr. Shook’s dark business, he understood   how much corrupted was the city including the government by numerous new wealthy people such as his boss.

Meanwhile,  he spent most of the day waiting for Mr.Ashok, Balram was amused by other older drivers’  talking. Little by little, he was losing his innocent behaviour for another more selfish and self-sufficient.

Driving around the city, he  checked its most richest areas, full of shopping malls  as luxurious as many  American cities. On the contrary, there were as well  many neighbourhoods  where people had  nothing at all.

Balram wanted to leave his bad position and raising his own business. He will not doubt to do anything to achieve it.

The White Tiger provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class. The novel captures the unspoken voice of the people from “the Darness”. Also its  is  a symbol for freedom and individuality, reflected by the protagonist.

In my opinion it is a good book and very interesting too. So, I recommend you.

The author show us the social system that divides the Indian population into higher and lower classes. Moreover, she  portraits   a  capitalist  India society very negative towards the poverty.