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students novel • • • • • (bewertet mit 4 von 5 Punkten) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The book The White Tiger is the first book of an up to now completely unknown author fom India. The plot is about a young Indian named Balram Halwai who grows up in poor living conditions and his rise from a dishwasher to a head waiter. Using his book, Adiga wants to give some pieces of information to the reader about the real life in nowadays India, away from the fantastic illusion of Bollywood and the Indian politicians who argue that everything is proper and harmonic in India. The main themes Adiga deals with in his book are the social unfairness, the corruption of the officials, the problem of the caste system and the missing security in the social sector. Adiga writes this book in a criticising way but it combines lots of emotions. It is funny, critical, witty, scoffing, ironic and full of black humor. Balram is growing up in a really poor and rural area in India, in the so called Darkness in which the landlords, rich and important people, rule. The land belongs to them and everybody is dependent on them. There are just little and poor payed work options. Adiga tells: Things are different in the darkness. There are every morning tens of thousands of yours men sit in the tea shop, reading the newspaper [] or sit in the room and talking to a picture of a film actress. They know they wont get any job today. They give up the fight. (pp. 54) So Balram poses the question: Eat or be eaten? His dream is to break out of this world and become what resembles individuality, power and Liberty to him: a white Tiger. He becomes a chauffeur at the house of one of the landlords sons in Delhi who is a politician. Balram gets payed very well now and is very happy with his situation. Along the way while driving the car he notices how corrupt the people and politicians are and how many lines they cross just to get their will. They all are very selfish and just care about whats best for themselves and not for all the poor people they are surrounded by. He also senses that you can only achieve might and money by being immoral. When he gets the chance to gain a lot of money to start a new life, far away from home, he murders his boss and takes the money that the boss originally wanted to use for other corruption. In another City he opens up a cab company and makes it prosper through corruption. Later he thinks: The new gerneration I tell you is growing up with no morals at all. (pp. 316) In the end he really managed to break out of the old poor world and dive into the new one as a white tiger. Now he is independent, mighty and free just like he always wanted. Aravind Adiga wrote a novel which captivates you and you cant stop reading. He managed to combine reality and fiction and the achievement is an authentic novel that describes the current situation in India in a very good way. He wrote his book in English which made it easier for him to expand into the western market. The reactions to his book were very positive and it won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. In his homeland India the people see Adiga as a traitor of his own country, to drag it into the mud and to pervert the facts. I really enjoyed reading the book it was very fascinating and interesting. The book gave me an idea of what reality in India really looks like and that the country is not what it pretends to be. In my mind: Buy it, love it, advise it !!! Eine Rezension von Heyns Vaakenberg "student" > vom 5. Mai 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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