blog 12

Blog 12, Research blog number two

Adiga, Aravind. "The White Tiger." (2009): n. pag. Web. 9 Apr 2011

The article I read for my exploration of the gaps between the rich and poor of the world is one on the book “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga. This book is a fictional book about a man named Balram the Killer, a man who, after a “heinous crime”, becomes a leading entrepreneur in India. The reason he is able to rise to financial power is through crime and criminal acts present due to the current gap between the rich and the poor in the emerging super economy of India. Though this is a fictional story, it brings to light the current social strife in India. Although India is quickly becoming one of the world's powerful economic entity's, this advance is causing a huge gap between the nation's upper and lower classes. In India you having emerging billionaires while the “untouchables”, the people so poor they must rifle through trash to find enough to feed themselves. This gap is also present in the Firefly episode “Shindig”. The show presents its audience with poor criminals who rely on petty thievery to feed themselves while in the same city there are people attending extremely wealthy balls and parties. This show brings to light a huge problem people have always faced; greediness. The fact that we can have people with enough money to stop working today and live in luxury the rest of their lives and then down the street a single mom of four working three jobs to put food on the table is an issue with the world.