Analogy: The White Tiger
An analogy is a comparison made between two or more unconnected things. As such it is a form of representation in literature, a deliberate choice made by an author to represent one thing as being like another. In the extract below from Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel, The White Tiger, the narrator, Balram Halwai, introduces an analogy that becomes a central motif in the book's exploration of the caste/class system in...