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The New Literatur e Parmar Dipali K. Roll No: 24 Topic: Comparison Of ‘The White Tiger’ With ‘The Native Son’ Unit: 3 Arvind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’ M.A. Sem. 4 Batch: 2015-’17 Email Id: [email protected] Department Of English (M.K.B.U.)

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The New LiteratureParmar Dipal i K.Rol l No: 24Topic: Comparison Of ‘The White Tiger ’ With ‘The Nat ive Son’Unit : 3 Arvind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger ’M.A. Sem. 4Batch: 2015- ’17Emai l Id: d ipal iparmar247@gmai l .ComDepartment Of Engl ish (M.K.B.U.)

Comparison of ………..

Index•About ‘The White Tiger’•About ‘The Native Son’

•Comparison of the Protagonist•Comparison of their Crime

•Comparison of their Native Place•Conclusion

About ‘The White Tiger’

The book is written by Arvind Adiga in 2008. His book is 2008 Booker Prize winner novel. The novel describes contemporary Indian Society very deeply and Effectively. The tone of the novel is satirical.

About ‘The Native Son’ Native Son (1940) is a novel written by African-American author Richard Wright. It is a Social Protest novel. The novel describes the crime done by it’s protagonist Bigger. The place which is used here is Chicago.

Comparison of Protagonist Main Characters : Balram Halwai & Bigger Thomas. Born into sharply divided societies where the lower classes struggle in terrible poverty without hope of advancement. Both reflect a Manichean duality of rich/master/powerful and poor/servant/oppressed. Poverty, frustration, hopelessness, and humiliation figure into the complex of causes that result in violent crime. Both Bigger and Balram turn to violence to escape the oppression that threatens their goals for livelihood and manhood. Both men bite the hands that feed them by committing acts of homicide and proves it as an existential act.

Comparision of their … Bigger kills Mary Dalton which was accidental where as Balram kills his master Ashok was an act of violence which includes robbery too. Bigger’s killing of Mary Dalton was accidental. Bigger’s first crime results from a chain of events: -Mary goes to meet her boyfriend-She insist Bigger to socialize and drink with them- her boyfriend’s decision to leave Mary with Bigger although she was completely drunk- the temptation of Bigger when he finds himself alone with Mary in her bedroom and begins to kiss her- the accidental interruption of Mrs. Dalton, which terrifies Bigger into strangling the girl

Continue… If any of these chain would have broken, Mary would not have been killed.

Balram commits an act of planned murder to achieve his destiny as an entrepreneur.

To become a master rather than a servant, Balram must kill. There is no other way for Balram to break out of the cage.

Balram’s cold-blooded killing of Ashok follows a period of employment in which he has bonded with his master—in contrast to Bigger, who hardly knew the Daltons.

To Ashok, Balram may be “stupid as hell but he is honest” and therefore should be valued as driver.

Just as Mrs. Dalton was physically blind, Ashok, although sighted, is blind to the wheels that are clicking inside Balram’s head.

A turning point comes when Pinky Madam runs over a child on a highway while driving drunk, they expect that Balram will take the rap and go to jail “loyal as a dog”. Ashok loses Balram’s affection and respect by becoming like other masters who visit whores and drink too much. After Ashok’s new girlfriend urges him to seek a replacement driver, Balram firmly decides to murder his master. He acts murder and the murder weapon was a broken bottle of Johnny Walker Black—the drink of India’s elite.

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Comparison of their Native PlaceBigger Thomas

Born in Chicago and grown up in the slum areas.

In Bigger’s Chicago there is an absolute divide between white and black.

In Bigger’s Chicago, blacks remain suppressed as a result of racial oppression and religious passivity.

Balram Halwai

Born and grown up in India’s little village Lakshmangarh.

Balram is born in grinding poverty, in a world known as “The Darkness”.

In Balram’s India, it is the family that tightens the wires of the rooster coop.

Conclusion.. Manichean model of power

Opposing binaries

Voiceless subalterns

Homi Bhabha’s theory of mimicry

Fanon’s theory that violence is a cleansing force that frees the colonized from their inferiority complex and gives them a measure of self-respect.

Reference Schotland, Sara D. "Breaking out of the rooster coop." JSTORE (2011): 20. pdf.

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