This document summarizes and compares the portrayal of the poor-rich divide in Aravind Adiga's novel "The White Tiger" and Vikas Swarup's novel "Q&A". Both novels examine social inequality and the resentment felt by the poor against the rich in India. In "The White Tiger", Balram overcomes poverty by murdering his employer, representing the struggle of the lower classes. "Q&A" depicts the protagonist Jamal's journey from the slums and highlights the issues faced by slum communities in India such as poverty, crime, and malnutrition. The document analyzes how both novels provide a powerful social commentary on injustice and class struggles in Indian society through their characters' experiences.
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paper 13 Poor And Rich Divide in The white tiger
1. Poor Rich divide in Aravind Adiga¡¯s ¡°The
White Tiger¡± And Swarup's ¡° Slumdog
millionaire Q$A
Monali Jethwa
Roll No : 19
Paper 13: The New Literature
Submitted : Department of English
M.K.B.U
2. l Arvind Adiga is an Indian ¨C
Ausrelian Writer and journalist.
lWon booker prize in 2008
lIn 2009 film adopted for the
future film.
lVikas swarup writer of Slumdog
Millionaier Q&A.
lOscar Wining Film In 2009.
lFilm Directed by Danny Boyel.
Introduction :
3. ¡°The servant ¨C master system implies two things : one is that the
servants are far poorer than the rich ¨C a servant has no possibility
of ever catching up to the master. and secondly , he has access to
the master ¨C the master¡¯s money , the master¡¯s physical person.
yet crime rates in India are very low. even though the middle class
¨C who often have three or four servants ¨C are paranoid about crime
, the reality is master getting killed by his servant is rare¡¡ you
need two things a divide and a conscious ideology of resentment .
we don¡¯t have resentment in India. the poor just assume that the
rich are a fact of life ¡. but I think we¡¯re seeing what I believe is a
class based resentment for the first time¡±(sawhney , 2008)
4. lBalram Halwai is a protagonist as a modern hero.
lBalram climing the ladder of the success is by the mudering of the
mr.Ashok; like
l - His employer .
l - Stelling his bag full of money 700,000 based on
l philoshopy of the revage , ambition , curruption.
lThis story Portrayal of the Relationship with ¡° Balram Halwai ¨C Master
Mr.Ashok.
5. Poor- Rich concept in Aravind Adiga¡¯s ¡°The White
Tiger¡± And Swarup's ¡° Slumdog millionaior¡±
l The white Tiger :
l Balram halwai who represented the sublertan section of socity ,
juxtaposed against the rich socity.
l Adiga employes the example of Rooster coop to examine the
never ending the suffer of the sublertn grups of suffer.
lIn this powerfull commentary on the injustice
l
lClass sruggles in India.
6. lSummdog Millionaier Q&A
l Swarup's portrayeal of his protagonist Jamal from slum back groung
and define the concept of slum subaltern.
lPresent slum sublertan in the midest of muder , extoration , postitution.
l slums are no more threat to growing globel poverty but asset to
echonomy grow if given direction .
7. lStatastic way How poetry is on the raise In India.
l 4 In ever 10 children are malnourised accoring to UN reports.
lIndian Rank 66 out of 88counties in ¡° Globle Hunger Index¡± 2008
8. l India has more hungree people more than 200 millioan people ¨C then
any other countries in the wolrd.
lOne thired of world's poor lives in india ¨C according to the letest povertiy
estimate from the
- World Bank
lIndia rank in poverty 128 out of 177 countries in
,UN Development Index .
9. Conclusion..
l Arvind Adiga's story of rickshow wallah's move from ¡°
darkness¡± of rural India to the ¡° Light¡± of urban Gurago , and
we known haesh face behind that.
lBoth writers are very vibrant in the social criticism .
lSocial Inequality to the poor and rich devied in socity ,
leading escalationof violance , crime and evils of all
magnitudes.