"The White Tiger" by Arvind Adiga

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

             The India which is represented by Adiga is poor,corrupt,uneducated and cheater also.Well I do agree that not only India but all countries in the world do have these bad kinds of problem in it.Adiga represented the darker side of India.This novel was written in 2008,after that India has progressed in many ways.But then even we cann't deny that poverty,corruption and illiteracy are vanished from India.But we can say that,India is not only what is represented by Adiga.There is also bright side of India.In bright side of India.In bright side of India many peoples are educated, rich and honest also.


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

                      We can see that the stories which portrays poor as central character at the end of the story the poor becomes rich.We can see many people who are like Balram.Same like who belongs to poor and wide family,who didn't get education properly, who goes to work from early childhood.These types of stories shows the struggle of poor to achieve their dream and for that becoming rich.So this way we can say that Balram's story is archetype of all stories of "Rags to Riches".


  • "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' (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".This word breaks all the philosophy and all the ideals which Balram is presenting by giving his own example. Because he is not fully educated. He understand things which his limited power of analysis. He appropriate the deep philosophies with his shallow ideas and thinking. So this way we can deconstruct "The White Tiger ".

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