White Tiger Flashcards
Stuart Jeffries describes Balram as:
“engaging, gobby, megalomaniac, boss-killer”
Tuberculosis
in its nature is a disease which preys on the weak
“an unglamorous disease” - adiga
Adam Lively said
“[Adiga] stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of representations of poverty from those images of doe-eyed children”
Adiga on rickshaw pullers
“Rickshaw pullers … reminded me of … black Americans, in the sense that they are witty, acerbic, verbally skilled and utterly without illusions about their rulers”
Rushby’s opinion of the novel
“a witty parable of India’s changing society”
Subrahmanyam’s critisicm of Adiga
“a posh English-educated voice trying to talk dirty, without being able to pull it off”
Miller
“Adiga used his presentation of women not only as commentary on women’s treatment in the society, but also as a signal to the broader theme of prolific labeling and categorization among all groups in the society.”
What can Balram be classified as?
an antihero
