Analytical essay:” The White Tiger”, a novel by Aravind Adiga in 2008
Living in India, which is ranked with one of the world's lowest social mobility, can be hard and challenging, if you desire more than you were born into. Furthermore, it will even more challenging if the majority of society is satisfied with the current conservative norms based on Mahatma Ghandis influence, and an old but traditional class system, with no to little upward mobility.
These problems are, among others, portrayed in Aravind Adigas novel. In the white tiger (chapter 5 and the last chapter) we read seven 7 letters written by the protagonist Balram Halwai, to the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao. Balram Halwai is born into a working lower-class family. Even though he had academic abilities, he was forced to leave school, to start working to help providing for his family.
The story is told by an all-knowing first-person narrator, Balram himself, so the audience follows his point of view. Balham uses a lot of flashbacks, while describing his early life. Very early in chapter seven Balram makes a comparison of rooster coop chickens and the humans in India. “The very same thing is done to humans in this country” (line 20, page 291). A couple of lines earlier Balmas describes how the chickens (that we now can analyze as humans) acts in this environment.
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