The Journey of Self-Made Millionaire in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Abstract
Aravind Adiga got instant fame with publication of first book The White Tiger, which awarded Booker Prize in 2008. The White Tiger is in form of letters written to Chinese premier, so become epistolary novel. Adiga portrayal multiple layers in the work, different themes appears in work like Poor vs Rich, Village vs City, India in Global world etc. It is also success story of a protagonist Balram Halwai who rise from poverty and become Self-Made Millionaire.
Adiga’s narration is also displaced and far away from family, when he starts a journey of renewing himself and repeatedly focusing on knowledge as a foundation of hope. As Derrida ensures through inspections of literature, through characters to order themselves by the disorder that is produced (387). Dissonance is vital to their development and our consideration for the possible of a people’s growth at the personal level.
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