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Chock full of {{satire}} and {{black humor}}, ''The White Tiger'' depicts the life of Balram Halwai--the eponymous White Tiger who only comes 'once in a generation--of how he starts as a lowly driver from the Darkness of UsefulNotes/{{India}} and manages to become a successful social entrepeneur with cunning, intelligence, and murder.
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Chock full of {{satire}} and {{black humor}}, ''The White Tiger'' depicts the life of Balram Halwai--the eponymous White Tiger who only comes 'once in a generation--of generation'--of how he starts as a lowly driver from the Darkness of UsefulNotes/{{India}} and manages to become a successful social entrepeneur entrepreneur with cunning, intelligence, and murder.
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* UnreliableNarrator: All we know is what Balram writes. Given that he is a confessed murderer, thief and fraudster the reader should not take his statements at face value. Even if we foolishly assume he is perfectly honest, it is entirely his self-justifying rememberance and his perspective we get.
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* UnreliableNarrator: All we know is what Balram writes. Given that he is a confessed murderer, thief and fraudster the reader should not take his statements at face value. Even if we foolishly assume he is perfectly honest, it is entirely his self-justifying rememberance remembrance and his perspective we get.
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%% * BadassDriver: Balram, duh.
%% * BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.]]
%% * BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.]]
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* BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, who threaten those who work with them with violence [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.]]
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* BlackHumor: The White Tiger is notable for portraying the corruption and tragedies of Indian life in a rather witty manner.
%% * BribingYourWayToVictory: [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Everybody.]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality All the time.]] [[CrapsackWorld No exceptions.]]
%% * BribingYourWayToVictory: [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Everybody.]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality All the time.]] [[CrapsackWorld No exceptions.]]
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* BlackHumor: The White Tiger is notable for portraying the corruption and tragedies of Indian life in a rather witty manner.
%% * BribingYourWayToVictory: [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Everybody.]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality All the time.]] [[CrapsackWorld No exceptions.]]
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%% * {{Irony}}: Chock full of it.
%% * {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much everyone to some degree.
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%% * SelfMadeMan: Balram, [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain at the cost of a good chunk of his soul]].
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%% * VillainProtagonist: Balram, to some. [[BlackAndGrayMorality It's really hard to tell]].
%% * VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Great Socialist.
%% * WouldHurtAChild: Balram slaps Dharam after he delivers him an unkind letter from his grandmother.
%% * VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Great Socialist.
%% * WouldHurtAChild: Balram slaps Dharam after he delivers him an unkind letter from his grandmother.
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* AffairHair: How Balram realizes that Ashok slept with the Ukrainian student.
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* BadassDriver: Balram, duh.
* BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.]]
** [[spoiler:Balram uses both of them as a model to avert this trope himself. He treats his employees like employees (not as servants, and not pretending that they're family) and makes himself responsible for their accidents rather than throwing them under the bus.]]
* BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.]]
** [[spoiler:Balram uses both of them as a model to avert this trope himself. He treats his employees like employees (not as servants, and not pretending that they're family) and makes himself responsible for their accidents rather than throwing them under the bus.]]
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%% * BadassDriver: Balram, duh.
%% * BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.]]
** [[spoiler:Balram uses both of them as a model to avert this trope himself. He treats his employees like employees (not as servants, and not pretending that they're family) and makes himself responsible for their accidents rather than throwing them under the bus.]]
%% * BadBoss: Mukesh "the Mongoose" and the Stork, [[spoiler:as well as Ashok towards the end.
** [[spoiler:Balram uses both of them as a model to avert this trope himself. He treats his employees like employees (not as servants, and not pretending that they're family) and makes himself responsible for their accidents rather than throwing them under the bus.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Everybody.]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality All the time.]] [[CrapsackWorld No exceptions.]]
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* CorruptTheCutie: When Balram first comes to Delhi as a driver, he's described as a 'sweet, innocent village fool'. He doesn't stay that way.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: [[spoiler: How Balram kills Ashok.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Chock full of it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much everyone to some degree.
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%% * {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much everyone to some degree.
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* LightIsNotGood: Technically, life in the Light side of India is far preferable than in the Darkness, but remember all the rampant corruption we were talking about..?
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* SelfMadeMan: Balram, [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain at the cost of a good chunk of his soul]].
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* VillainProtagonist: Balram, to some. [[BlackAndGrayMorality It's really hard to tell]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Great Socialist.
* WouldHurtAChild: Balram slaps Dharam after he delivers him an unkind letter from his grandmother.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Great Socialist.
* WouldHurtAChild: Balram slaps Dharam after he delivers him an unkind letter from his grandmother.
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%% * VillainProtagonist: Balram, to some. [[BlackAndGrayMorality It's really hard to tell]].
%% * VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Great Socialist.
%% * WouldHurtAChild: Balram slaps Dharam after he delivers him an unkind letter from his grandmother.
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%% * WouldHurtAChild: Balram slaps Dharam after he delivers him an unkind letter from his grandmother.
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* GoodCapitalismEvilCapitalism:
** The Stork represents the unquestioned evil of capitalism. He's violent, oppressive to the villagers he more or less owns, and coerces Balram into signing a false confession (to killing a young boy, something which Ashouk's wife Pinky did) or his family will be killed.
** Ashouk and Pinky vacillate between the two. Ashouk particularly becomes of a {{jerkass}} as he's more drawn into his family's bribery schemes, and switches between being kind to Balram and being abusive.
** Balram claims to be using both Ashouk and the Stork as cautionary tales to ''not'' behave like them and to be a good capitalist. He treats his workers with respect, not as servants, and takes full responsibility for their behavior, including trying to make amends when one of them is killed in an accident. Whether or not this represents a happy ending or just a continuation of the same cycle is left up to the individual.
** The Stork represents the unquestioned evil of capitalism. He's violent, oppressive to the villagers he more or less owns, and coerces Balram into signing a false confession (to killing a young boy, something which Ashouk's wife Pinky did) or his family will be killed.
** Ashouk and Pinky vacillate between the two. Ashouk particularly becomes of a {{jerkass}} as he's more drawn into his family's bribery schemes, and switches between being kind to Balram and being abusive.
** Balram claims to be using both Ashouk and the Stork as cautionary tales to ''not'' behave like them and to be a good capitalist. He treats his workers with respect, not as servants, and takes full responsibility for their behavior, including trying to make amends when one of them is killed in an accident. Whether or not this represents a happy ending or just a continuation of the same cycle is left up to the individual.
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* GreatWhiteFeline: A consistent motif throughout the story. In the book's TitleDrop, Balram is compared to the titular animal because his intelligence and potential to rise above his station is as rare and valuable as the white tiger. When he visits a zoo and sees a white tiger in a cage; he sees himself in the animal and [[spoiler: kills his boss, giving himself freedom.]]
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* GreatWhiteFeline: A consistent motif throughout the story. In the book's TitleDrop, Balram is compared to the titular animal because his intelligence and potential to rise above his station is as rare and valuable as the white tiger. When he visits a zoo and sees a white tiger in a cage; cage, he sees himself in the animal and [[spoiler: kills his boss, giving himself freedom.]]
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** Balram claims to be one at the end, [[spoiler:and he is seen negotiating one of his drivers' freedom at the end]].
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** Balram claims to be one at the end, [[spoiler:and himself, [[spoiler:as he is seen negotiating one of his drivers' freedom at the end]].
