Thinking Activity: " The white Tiger "

 

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Welcome to my blog. This blog related to  the  thinking  activity  " The white Tiger ."

Some questions  related  to this thinking activity.  This  question  here: 

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

Answer:   Yes  I agree  with the India  represented  in "The White Tiger ."  I have come up with a lot of ideas when I read this book. For example  like  corruption  in India, Darkness  of  India,There is more trust in God,   Struggle  for the freedom,   Nationalism, There are many customs in India  political  power  ect…  this book aslo represents  system  of insight.Balram, the chandelier, a gaudy physical manifestation of wealth, symbolizes his success at transforming himself from a peasant into a Bangalore entrepreneur. As a particularly opulent source of light, it further represents his escape from the Darkness.By chopping the light into a strobe effect using a fan, Balram provides some insight into his talent for remaking himself. He is exercising a control over light and darkness, symbolizing the way he moved himself from one realm to the other to now straddle both.

We can read this quote  by Balram ;

"Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well off. But the river brings darkness to India—the black river."

Balram's vision of two Indias forms the central image around which the novel is organized. The most significant of the many dualities explored in the text, the dichotomy between the Light and the Darkness frames Balram's journey. His fervent desire to enter into the "Light" of urban coastal India is the driving force behind the dramatic transformation detailed in his narrative. This passage also suggests an impenetrable barrier; in the same way that the ocean is immovable, so are the Light and Darkness necessarily distinct. That Balram is able to transcend that barrier is evidence of his unique abilities. That he remains uncertain whether he can ever fully be a denizen of the "Light" represents his belief, expressed here, that the separation is beyond any individual's control.

Another  idea   of  master  slave  relationship  like  Ashok and Balram relationship. Though Balram's respect for Ashok occasionally wavers, it is usually quite high. At this moment, however, Balram perceives for the first time that his master is fundamentally weak. Using his usual tendency towards animal imagery, Balram positions himself, the White Tiger, against the helpless Lamb. Once Balram realizes that Ashok lacks the instincts to survive in the "Jungle" of India, his ultimate decision to assert his power over Ashok becomes inevitable. Because he sees the world in terms of fate and natural cycles, a jungle of sorts, Balram recognizes the necessity of conquering his weaker foe so that he can reach his natural potential. Balram  said  that ; 

We came to an enclosure with tall bamboo bars, and there—seen in the interstices of the bars, as it paced back and forth in a straight line—was a tiger. Not any kind of tiger. The creature that gets born only once every generation in the jungle. I watched him walk behind the bamboo bars. Black stripes and sunlit white fur flashed through the slits in the dark bamboo; it was like watching the slowed-down reels of an old black-and-white film. He was walking in the same line, again and again—from one end of the bamboo bars to the other, then running around and repeating it over, at exactly the same pace, like a thing under a spell. He was hypnotizing himself by walking like this—that was the only way he could tolerate this cage. Then the thing behind the bamboo bars stopped moving. It turned its face to my face. The tiger’s eyes met my eyes, like my master’s eyes have met mine so often in the mirror of the car. All at once, the tiger vanished."

I have compared with  another  novel. Example  like Heart of Darkness " novel  represented  master slave relationship.

"Lagan " movie  Also represented  same ideas. 

           *   Political corruption

        *    Bureaucratic corruption

         *   Judicial corruption

         *   Police corruption

        *    Electoral fraud

       *     Poor sanitation

       *     Abysmal health care

        *    Anti-Muslim prejudice

        *    Caste prejudice

       *     Exploitation of servants

protagonist Balram Halwai is the representative figure of such type of monster. Aravind Adiga seems to depict the corruption and entrepreneurship. According to me poverty and corruption is the theme of the Novel Aravind Adiga, he wanted India to get free from poverty and corruption. Like with other characters Balram Halwai, The White Tiger is a perfect character which is fit to represent poverty as well as corruption.

A key component in The White Tiger is the discussion of the India caste system. There are two different Indias in one: “an India of Light and an India of Darkness”.

Question : 2 Do you  believe  that Balram' s story is the Archetype  of all stories  of  " Rags to riches"  ?

Answer:     Yes i believeHe has a significant faith in his exceptionalism, thinking of himself as a "White Tiger" not tied to conventional morality or social expectations.Yes, Balram’s story becomes the archetype of all stories but We can say only 30 to 40 percent of people can follow the same thing as Balram did especially in the era of Post-truth. People can take as new morality like Balram said. But others can also become a good and well-known person in society through the hard work, think out of the box, intelligence and some time may be luck. For  example In slumdog millionaire movie, Jamal became rich. Because people of India wants to become reach anyway and that’s why they used lottery tickets or this kind of shows also. 

Question: 3 "Language  bears with in itself  the necessity  of its own critique  Deconstructive  criticism  aima to show that any text  inevitably  undermines its  own claims to have a determinate  meaning  and licences  the reader  to produce  his own meaning out of it by an activity of semantic  freeeplay "  ( Derrida  1978, in Lodge,1988, page . 108)  is  it possible  to  do  Deconstructive  reading of  " The  White Tiger " ?

Answer: 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 with his limited power of analysis. He appropriate the deep philosophies with his shallow ideas and thinking. For example, he compares his idea of killing his master and get freedom with the enlightenment of Buddha.

Question:4 With reference  to  screening  of Netflix  adaptation:

Answer: 

              The White Tiger stars Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra and Adarsh Gourav in the lead roles. It is directed by Ramin Bahrani. The newest Netflix film is a clumsy adaptation of the eponymous book by Aravind Adiga.

Question  :1  write  review  of  the film adaption of " The white  Tiger " 

Answer: The film is based on Aravind Adiga's book with the same name. Gourav playing the role of driver was outstanding throughout; it would really be unfair to rate his performance in numbers. Raj with his another Rudra avtar was magnificent. It is indeed a great pleasure to watch him doing different roles everytime cause he is the feel of every film he has done till date. On the other hand, priyanka never stops slaying, undoubtedly dynamic and mesmerizing.

Question :2  Have you identified  any different  in the novel and the adaptation  ? Does it make any significant  difference  in the overall  tone and texture of the novel ?

Answer: There are some differences between movie and novel the white tiger. These poetic lines bring major changes in both the movie and in the book. In movie, Pinky madam who speaks these lines when she goes to America and in books Bookseller who speaks these lines when Balram Halwai visits the book store and it changes entire life of Balram Halwai from Yokel to rich and successful entrepreneur.Minor change also like the lines of email last which he send to Mr. Jiabao. 

Question :3  David Ehrlich in his review  write  his - Ramin Bahrani ' s  Netflix   thrillers  is a brutak corrective to " Slumdog millionaire " ? Why is it a corrective?  What was the error  in " Slumdog millionaire"   that it is corrected?  

Answer: The  movie  slumdog Millionaire is a famous and appreciated by people. While  the novel is also  marvellous work  by Amiga who  portrait  the real image  India. India in which  we can see  corruption, bad politics. In the  both  end are different. Means both  Balram  and Hamid both became successful but  There  is difference. So this is the corrected by the white Tiger. 

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