Monday, January 18, 2010
Teaching The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The next novel for the seniors is The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the 2008 Man Booker Prize winner. With such a recent book, materials for teaching are pretty non-existent. Hopefully I will create some interesting handouts and topics for discussion about the text, which I'm really excited to teach. Google searches are turning up nothing, so I'm on my own.
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I read this book last year. It was extremely interesting, and it's good for questions and conversation. The what would you do? The is he a good guy or a bad guy? The do you live inside of the box created for you- without even know it in some cases? I'd almost forgotten that before my friend bought it for me, I read the reviews on amazon and B&N. Many native Indians, didnt seem to enjoy the book at all, many felt it cast a dark shadow on the people, far fewer felt as the non-native Indians that it was a fantastic book. That was then though, maybe it's a different feeling now.
Im jealous of your students, I didnt have the opportunity to read books like these when I was in high school. The deepest we ever got was Beloved by Toni Morrison, and the teacher did not teach it - she just asked us to read it and do a report. Your kids are a lucky bunch!
Do you google "The White Tiger Book Club"? Sometimes that can give a good list of discussion questions. Here's one: http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=2119
I am an Indian and I think the book is too contrived. It exaggerates Indian poverty in order to shock its readers. For example, I am yet to see a rickshaw puller who is so callous that he has not named his son! You will find more such examples in my review at http://www.book-review-circle.com/the-white-tiger-aravind-adiga.html
I think both Slumdog Millionaire and The White Tiger maade money off Indian poverty!
Have you looked into the movie "John&Jane" for comparison?
I am a teacher in Costa Rica who has a class of students who are desperate to study the novel "White Tiger". I have not found any resources on this novel and was wondering if you have any that you would be willing to share. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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