White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga:-

• Aravind Adiga is an Indo-Australian  writer and Journalist. Hia debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

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

• The White Tiger is the famous novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. Genre of the novel is "Dark Humor". India is represented through half-baked Indian 'Balram Halwai' in the novel.

• The India that is presented in the fiction is quite true to the reality. Such as Satire on education, marriage system and suffering of poor children, school corruption, inadequacy of job, Haves V/S Have-nots, master-slave relationship , exploitation of poor people by rich, servants as animals, society as cage, landlords and exploitation of poor people, internalized slavery on Indian police, Dark India v/s light India etc. These all facts give us glimpse of India in which we are living.

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

• Balram's story is the Archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'. Balram has decided to share his own story of entrepreneurial success. He believes his rags-to-riches Tale will show the premier "the truth about Bangalore", representing all that fascinates and appeals to Balram about the Light of urban coastal India. He controls light and darkness, where he once was a slave to circumstance and others.

3. Narrative Structure - Wanted Poster # KBC show:-

• The Novel and the film has almost similar and parallel structure. Both the works starts with flashback techniques. In the film used one reality show kbc in which question and answer session going on. All the questions leads Jamal into his past. While in the novel wanted poster used. By using this poster writer talking about his past.

4.  Indianess:-

• In both narration there is a satire on India, that no basic necessities even fulfilled like, water, electricity, public transportation, Discipline or punctuality. Cricket, voting patterns, Intuition all reflects Indianess.

• Education Balram and Jmal both were uneducated but still have intelligence and talent to understand the world. They have enough knowledge how to survive in world. In both film and novel narration of family life. Balram's father and grandmother, cousins all binds him.

• He have to sacrifice his study for family support. But he breaks the tradition and get freedom by loss of family. Jmal brother slim also departed from him have choose bad way to survive. Railway station train and station narration in both reflects Indianess.

• Balram wanted poster and run away after crime all at the station. Jmal's quest, love and ending all at the station. Thus station reflects Indianess. Two brothers lost and found is archetype also reflects Indianess in both narration. Slim's departure and meeting shows that thing.

5. List of questions asked in the film. If you have to replace or add a few questions, which questions would you like to add. Remember, questions shall be in-tune with the screenplay of the film.

1. Who was the star in the 1973 hit film "Zanzeer"?

Amitabh Bachchan

2. A picture of three lion is seen in the national emblem of India. What is written underneath it?

The Truth alone triumphs

3. In depiction of God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand?

A bow and arrow

4. The song "Darshan Do Ghanshyam" was written by which famous Indian poet?

Surdas

5. On the American One Hundred Dollar Bill, there is portrait of which American Statesman?

Benjamin Franklin

6. Who invented the revolver?

Samuel Colt

7. Cambridge Circus is in which UK city?

London

8. Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?

Jack Hobbs

9. In Alexander Dumas' book, "The Three Musketeer", two of the Musketeers are called Athos and poethos. What was the name of the third Musketeer?

Aramis

For the more known about all Questions you can watched following video.

• All these questions and their answers are connected with the life of Jamal. It shows that how minutely he observed the things and remember it. This all the questions leads him into his past incidents. All the questions are aptly connected with Jamal's life.

6. On what grounds can you deconstruct the film with reference to post colonial tools/theories.

Representing
Call Centre
Train represent as a symbol

• Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive Criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines it's own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meaings out of it by an activity of semantic 'free play' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988,p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The White Tiger?How?

• Yes, it is possible to deconstruct "The White Tiger". We can deconstruct it with the help of Derrida's concept of free play of meanings. To break the language we need to find the loose stone of it. The loose stone of "The White Tiger" is that Balram himself says that he is "Half- backed".

7. Compare with Texture and Treatment of subject content in film and novel.

• Texture in both narration is about India as corrupt and poor country. Villages, landlords, education all representes the darkness of India. Slum area and poverty is also reflects it. Rich heritage and spirituality, family / orphans all are texture of both. Both have own ways to achieve goals by good or bad things. So treatment is light, humorous and sometimes comic and dark.

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