The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
OUTLINE
The first night
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Introduction of the narrative letter to the
Premier Jiabao in Beijing
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Laxmangrah, Gaya is the village Belram (the
white tiger) comes from is very agricultural also describes as “Darkness” BUT
Gaya is famous for it’s history: apparently Buddha got his Enlightenment there
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River Ganga breaker of the chain of birth and
rebirth- dirty! Funeral of mother
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What the Premier of India says, turn it around
and you’ll know the truth.
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Village Paradise: Electricity poles- defunct,
water tab- broken, children- too lean and short for their age, and with
oversized heads from which vivid eyes shine, like the guilty conscience of the
government of India
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Father a Rickshaw-puller future for Belram
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Try to find better jobs in Big cities, eg Delhi
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Introduction of White Tiger, rarest animal in
the Jungle, Belram in this jungle
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Tea Shop: smashing coals. Wiping tables. Bad
news for me, you say? Himself a better education
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Hint to assaults on Mr Ashok
The second night
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Description of Ashok’s face, belram’s
ex-employee, killing him, even though he never told bad about him
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Death of father, because no medical support in
India
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Kishan, brother, marries moves to Dhanbad,
Belram and his cousin follow
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Works in a tea shop
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Own education: spying and overhearing costumers
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Begging for a free driver license
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Belram gets a job at the Stork
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Other work, than driving – diver number 2 does
other work
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One activity both do together: buy alcohol at
the “English Liquor Shop”
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Becomes the driver of the Honda City, go to
Laxmangrah
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Visits his family, while his employer has a
dinner
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Gets into an argument with his family- leaves
The fourth morning
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Belram at school in Laxmangraph: date of birth
for elections
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Man dies because of his revolt against the party
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Finding out Ram is muslim, Belram becomes driver
number 2
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Mr Ashok and Pinky want to go to Delhi for 3
moths, Mongoose comes a long, Belram drives them
The fourth night
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Abidance from Belram and his master in Delhi
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Belram getting lost in Delhi, soon gets into
contact with other drivers- help him
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“MURDER WEEKLY” magazine most drivers read while
waiting, vitiligo-lips gives to him
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Belram drives Mr. Ashok and the Mongoose to the
President’s house in the Headquarters, upset about political system in India
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The mongoose “lost” a rupee, leaves the next day
back to Dhanbad
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Belram becomes more hygienic, due to Pinky Madam
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One night, Pinky drives drunk, hits a car and
Belram is blamed: HAS to sign a document confessing his guilt on the murder of
the child
The fifth night
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Hens being squeeze in Rooster Coops
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Reference to the social system in India
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Indians world’s honest people? No. 99.9% of us are caught in the Rooster Coop just
like those poor guys in the poultry market.
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Pinky’s accident had not been reported, Belram
doesn’t need to go to jail
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Pinky leaves to NY
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Mr. Ashok drinks more and more, relationship:
Master-servant
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Yoga: Belram does it while waiting
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The Rooster Coop does its work quite well,
servants keep servants from becoming more than just a servant (entrepreneurs,
innovators or experimenters)
The sixth morning
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Belram in the car with Mr. Ashok on the way to
the Sheraton, Belram’s thoughts about his master
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Vitiligo
lips recommends prosecution to Belram
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Mr. Ashok sleeps with foreign woman
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Go to a party at the ministers’- master and assistant
had a couple of whiskeys in the car, the assistant is nearly forcing Ashok to
get with a Ukraine girl
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Belram keeps a strand of her golden hair, and
still has it today on his desk
The sixth night
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Belram and Vitiligo lips having a conversation,
while masters are jogging (both holding their water)
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Belram meets gold-hair prostitute of his master
(cheating)
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Belram gets screwed by the pimp and looses all
his 7000 rs
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The mongoose comes to have political and
commercial consultancies with Mr Ashok
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Belram planning on how to escape and tempted to
steal Mr. Ashok’s bags
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A bookseller teaches Belram a little bit about
poetry and literature and tells him: You
were looking for the key for years, but the door was always open.
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Belram’s granny Kusum will send his cousin
Dahram and threatens Belram to send money
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Belram murders his master on the way to
Sheraton,(“problem with the car”)
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Last minute decision takes dahram with him
The seventh night
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Belram on the way to Bangalore
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In Hyderabad, noticed a wanted poster of him
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Opens up his own company “White-Tiger-Driver” in
Bangalore
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Belram is dealing with illegal stuff
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When boy gets run over by one of his drivers,
the police lets it go
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Belram feels bad, and brings cash to the family
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“I made
it! I broke out of the coop!” Belram doesn’t regret killing his master,
because this brought him out of the darkness into the light
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“I’ll say
it was all worthwhile to know, just for a day, just for an hour, just for a
minute, what it means not to be a servant.”
