White Tiger Quotes
1. The Rooster Coop (Entrapment, Servitude, and Escape)
“Servants need to abuse other servants”
- Ideology of not escaping the darkness and the rooster coop. Why
entrepreneurship is so rare. People are like cockroaches waiting to be
crushed.
“The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian
economy”
- Most Indian people are trapped in the Rooster Coop. Family, Economy
and Religion keep people in a position of servitude.
“A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 per
cent” (page 175) “to exist in perpetual servitude” (page 176)
- Entrapment of people in poverty to the Rooster Coop and how they are
trapped and keep each other trapped in the rooster coop. Very few
people end up escaping the Rooster Coop.*
“The desire to be a servant had been bred into me”
- He(Balram) went from a position of servitude to emancipation.
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other
servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs”
- This is when the drivers come to Balram's window and laugh at him.
“The coop is guarded from the inside”
“People in the Rooster Coop are trapped in ‘a servitude so strong that
you put the key of his emancipation in a man’s hands and he will throw it
back at you with a curse’”
- Culture of servitude is so engraved into this society that even with the
chance of escaping they stay in servitude.*
“The Indian family is the reason we are trapped and tied to the Coop”
- This can be seen when Kusum says that he is proud of him for taking
the blame for his boss.
“I was trapped in the Rooster Coop”
1. The Rooster Coop (Entrapment, Servitude, and Escape)
“Servants need to abuse other servants”
- Ideology of not escaping the darkness and the rooster coop. Why
entrepreneurship is so rare. People are like cockroaches waiting to be
crushed.
“The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian
economy”
- Most Indian people are trapped in the Rooster Coop. Family, Economy
and Religion keep people in a position of servitude.
“A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 per
cent” (page 175) “to exist in perpetual servitude” (page 176)
- Entrapment of people in poverty to the Rooster Coop and how they are
trapped and keep each other trapped in the rooster coop. Very few
people end up escaping the Rooster Coop.*
“The desire to be a servant had been bred into me”
- He(Balram) went from a position of servitude to emancipation.
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other
servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs”
- This is when the drivers come to Balram's window and laugh at him.
“The coop is guarded from the inside”
“People in the Rooster Coop are trapped in ‘a servitude so strong that
you put the key of his emancipation in a man’s hands and he will throw it
back at you with a curse’”
- Culture of servitude is so engraved into this society that even with the
chance of escaping they stay in servitude.*
“The Indian family is the reason we are trapped and tied to the Coop”
- This can be seen when Kusum says that he is proud of him for taking
the blame for his boss.
“I was trapped in the Rooster Coop”
