Balram Halwai Quotes

Balram Halwai Quotes

In Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, Balram Halwai, a witty and complex teen, discusses through a collection of letters the disturbing yet captivating exploit of how he evolved from a village peasant to a successful entrepreneur. Balram, born as a low caste Indian, feels compressed and subdued by working as a servant. He makes a series of choices that ultimately lead him to his escape of the rooster coop, a theme in the novel representing the corruption of society and the "greatest thing to come to this country in the ten thousand years of its history" (147). Included in those choices is his decision to murder his employer, Mr. Ashok.

Throughout the novel, use shows readers his restrictive and abusive life as a servant. He recognizes that ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...When he is meant to take the blame when Pinky Madam killed a young child, he develops a certain mentality. Thinking about the situation "makes me so angry I might just go out and cut the throat of some right man right now" (145). Balram hits a turning point in the novel when he begins to think about murdering. Aravind Adiga has had readers picture Balram as an innocent teen up until this moment where the reader can see him as a dangerous character. He somewhat considers murdering as an option he would possibly take, an unusual decision considering he feels compassionate towards Ashok, but is angry at him because of the way he is being treated. Balram also begins to think about stealing from Ashok. Because he no longer cares for his family, he is willing the take the hazardous risk of seeing his relatives die in front of him. "What if one day, for instance, a driver took his employer's money and ran? What would his life be like? I will answer both for you... It would, in fact, take a White Tiger" (p.150). Balram contemplates the thought of his throughout the book. He no longer cares for his family, and if breaking out of the rooster coop means the death of them, he is waiting for the opportunity to do so. Only a freak of nature could do such a thing, a monster such as a White Tiger, a monster who has entered the light from the

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