Poverty As Property in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Journal Title: BEST : International Journal of Humanities , Arts, Medicine and Sciences ( BEST : IJHAMS ) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, the debut novel, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2008. The White Tiger is Sharp, Fascinating, attack poverty and inequality without being sentimental. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. To describe the present Indian condition in which poor people try to make both ends meet, the narrator uses the strange word ‘the darkness’. The White Tiger is a story about a man’s quest for freedom. Balram, the protagonist in this novel, the entire novel deals with how the protagonist overcome the social obstacles and how he has transformed to become a successful entrepreneur. We could see that Aravind Adiga is the one who makes the difference in his writing & makes all his novels unique from another. Thus, the paper will analyze the issues of caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty in India
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R. Nithyabooma
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