Chapter outline

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

OUTLINE

The first night

-       Introduction of the narrative letter to the Premier Jiabao in Beijing

-       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

-       River Ganga breaker of the chain of birth and rebirth- dirty! Funeral of mother

-       What the Premier of India says, turn it around and you’ll know the truth.

-       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

-       Father a Rickshaw-puller future for Belram

-       Try to find better jobs in Big cities, eg Delhi

-       Introduction of White Tiger, rarest animal in the Jungle, Belram in this jungle

-       Tea Shop: smashing coals. Wiping tables. Bad news for me, you say? Himself a better education

-       Hint to assaults on Mr Ashok

The second night

-       Description of Ashok’s face, belram’s ex-employee, killing him, even though he never told bad about him

-       Death of father, because no medical support in India

-       Kishan, brother, marries moves to Dhanbad, Belram and his cousin follow

o   Works in a tea shop

o   Own education: spying and overhearing costumers

o   Begging for a free driver license

-       Belram gets a job at the Stork

o   Other work, than driving – diver number 2 does other work

o   One activity both do together: buy alcohol at the “English Liquor Shop”

-       Becomes the driver of the Honda City, go to Laxmangrah

o   Visits his family, while his employer has a dinner

o   Gets into an argument with his family- leaves

The fourth morning

-       Belram at school in Laxmangraph: date of birth for elections

-       Man dies because of his revolt against the party

-       Finding out Ram is muslim, Belram becomes driver number 2

-       Mr Ashok and Pinky want to go to Delhi for 3 moths, Mongoose comes a long, Belram drives them

The fourth night

-       Abidance from Belram and his master in Delhi

-       Belram getting lost in Delhi, soon gets into contact with other drivers- help him

-       “MURDER WEEKLY” magazine most drivers read while waiting, vitiligo-lips gives to him

-       Belram drives Mr. Ashok and the Mongoose to the President’s house in the Headquarters, upset about political system in India

-       The mongoose “lost” a rupee, leaves the next day back to Dhanbad

-       Belram becomes more hygienic, due to Pinky Madam

-       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

-       Hens being squeeze in Rooster Coops

o   Reference to the social system in India

o   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.

-       Pinky’s accident had not been reported, Belram doesn’t need to go to jail

-       Pinky leaves to NY

-       Mr. Ashok drinks more and more, relationship: Master-servant

-       Yoga: Belram does it while waiting            

o   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

-       Belram in the car with Mr. Ashok on the way to the Sheraton, Belram’s thoughts about his master

-        Vitiligo lips recommends prosecution to Belram

-       Mr. Ashok sleeps with foreign woman

-       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

-       Belram keeps a strand of her golden hair, and still has it today on his desk

The sixth night

-       Belram and Vitiligo lips having a conversation, while masters are jogging (both holding their water)

-       Belram meets gold-hair prostitute of his master (cheating)

-       Belram gets screwed by the pimp and looses all his 7000 rs

-       The mongoose comes to have political and commercial consultancies with Mr Ashok

-       Belram planning on how to escape and tempted to steal Mr. Ashok’s bags

-       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.

-       Belram’s granny Kusum will send his cousin Dahram and threatens Belram to send money

-       Belram murders his master on the way to Sheraton,(“problem with the car”)

-       Last minute decision takes dahram with him

The seventh night

-       Belram on the way to Bangalore

-       In Hyderabad, noticed a wanted poster of him

-       Opens up his own company “White-Tiger-Driver” in Bangalore

-       Belram is dealing with illegal stuff

o   When boy gets run over by one of his drivers, the police lets it go

o   Belram feels bad, and brings cash to the family

-       “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

o   “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.”