White Tiger

Theme: Oppression

How is the theme of oppression conveyed in the novel The White Tiger?

Choose five quotes from those below. Explain how each conveys a feeling of oppression.

Balrams parents never named him

I smelled the river before I saw it: a stench of decaying flesh rising from my right. I sang louder: ''...The only truth!"

The suspect was educated in a school with two foot long lizards the color of half-ripe guavas hiding in it cupboards....

Everywhere this river flows, that are is the darkness.

I was a servant once you see

"Balram, what is the difference between a Hindu and Muslim?" Mr. Ashok leaned back and asked pinky Madam. Did you hear his answer?" “Was he joking?”

"All day long, the woman fed her and fed her fresh grass; feeding her was the main thing in their lives"

She giggled when se heard this: but his face, which I saw reflected in my rearview mirror, was serious.

He's a rickshaw-puller sir. He's got no time to name me.

The Buffalo was greediest of the lot. He had eaten p the rickshaws and the roads. So if you ran a rickshaw, or used the road, you had to pay him his fees--- one-third of whatever you earned, no less.

See, when you come to Bangalore, and stop at a traffic light, some boy will run to your car and knock on your window, while holding up a bootlegged copy of American business book..."

Her teeth were all gone, but this only made her grin more cunning"

This quote can show an example of poverty because of that person is living.

Me and thousands of others in this country like me are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling.

It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work-much like our politicians- and yet keep winning reelection to their golden thrones in heaven, year after year."

I don't think she had ever had such a fine thing to wear in her life

The thing is, he probably has... what, two, three years of schooling in him?

I was a servant once you see

This cloth was now pulled over her face; and logs of wood, as many as we could pay for, were piled on top of the body. Then the priest set my mother on fire

This mud was holding her back: this big, swelling mound of black ooze.

One of the main themes in “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga is oppression. This theme manifests itself in many ways. First, ….