Thinking activity:- The White Tiger
How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?
Aravind adiga is Indian but much realistic writer. He represent the real life of India in The White Tiger. Everything about Education system, Poverty, class difference, corruption, cast system, Indians are cheater & many other things. Adiga is Indian but he never hide the reality of real India. He shows so many negative sides of Indian in The White Tiger
Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?
Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?
From Rags to Riches means poor to rich. we can see many frames & story based on this things and also see many real life person. In The white tiger character Balram belongs to lower caste & his dream to become richer man. Struggle his whole life to create his identity as rich man.
"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, we can construct is novel. In the novel The character Balram halwai says himself Half backed, this word half-backed describe the weak point or we can say loose point of the text with help of balram's character.
Balram as a Half- backed means
- uneducated person
- less knowledge
- less maturity
Similarities between The White Tiger & Slumdog Millionaire
Narrative structure:- Wanted poster #KBC show
We can see similar structure in both text. The writer/narrative use flashback narrative technique. in The White Tiger novel beginning with the wanted poster & in Slumdog Millionaire film start with the reality show KBC.
Indianness
In the novel l& film we can find - Train, cricket, believe in religion, corrupt politician, caste system, child labour, Call centre, corrupt police, two sides of India good & bad, education system, Dharavi slum & many other things.
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Slumdog Millionaire, an Oscar Favorite, Is No Hit in India
List of questions asked in the film
Deconstruct the film with reference to post colonial tools / theories
Danny Boyle director of Slumdog millionaire & He shows the real India in this film. In this film we see negative sides of India but the scene of Taj Mahal help us to understand the post colonial theory. when the foreigners are coming to India to visit Taj Mahal Danny describe white people as well civilized & Indians are uncivilized & corrupted.
Compare with Texture and Treatment of subject content in film and novel
when we talked about novel & film Arvind & Danny both shows the negative sides of India but the protagonist of both text are totally different to each other.
Balram Halwai:
- Kill his master
- Uneducated & believe in God
- Less knowledge
Jamal Malik:
- Uneducated but fast learner
- Sharp mind
- Not believe in God(may be)
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