“The White Tiger” is a novel by the author Aravind Adiga but composed of a series of letters by the narrator Balram Halwai to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Balram is an Indian man, who used to work as a driver for Ashok, a rich young man, whom Balram kills after a while. Then he takes the bag of money that Ashok has in the backseat of the car and begins a whole new life. In the text, Balram allows his personal feelings and experiences intervene in the way in which Indian society functions: a society where the separation between castes becomes very obvious. Citizens are separated into higher or lower classes, according to their social status, and the narrator doesn’t approve of this separation, which also is evident from the letter.
I have read two fragments that are part of letters from the fifth night. The first fragment deals with the Indian mentality in general, the second is describing the setting of Bangalore, the place where Balram conducts his transport business. Last but not least, we have the final fragment which indicates the ending of the novel. The final one shows us that the letters were sent by email, as it ends with a formula associated to an email address (p. 295, ll. 25-29).
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