Essay White Tiger , and The Assault

"Some characters in fiction are somehow familiar and naturally believable; others are unlike anyone we have ever encountered. How have at least two writers in your study made exotic or previously unimaginable characters both interesting and credible?"

In fiction, authors can create anything they imagine; from a whole new dimension to whole new species. But sometimes they make their story happen in the normal world and they can let their creativity run through some character. Make them works of fiction that cannot truly exist. But the readers do not realize that those kinds of characters cannot happen in their everyday life, they believe in their existence. The Assault and The White Tiger are works of fiction that shows this very efficiently. They both have characters that are interesting and credible but are not familiar to the readers.

In The Assault the main character, Anton, has experienced a tragedy and does not want to know the truth behind the night were his family’s life was taken away unfairly. His life and personality is very vastly affected by that night but he runs away from the truth. He chooses a job, a wife, and a lifestyle because of his feelings that were created after that night but he keeps on running away from the light and stays into the darkness. This might seem credible but anyone in the world who had something happen to them like Anton would either continue their life normally and trying to forget about it rather than live based on it and ignores it.

Anton is a very interesting character and he is credible at the same time but he is just a work of fiction. The author uses Anton’s words to describe how he is running away from what happened the night of the assault. But he is using Anton’s life decisions and acts to describe how much he is stuck into that night. This is making Anton very interesting but that kind of person in the true world is very improbably to happen. But the readers of The Assault are credible with Anton’s character in the book.

Anton is made special from the rest of the people in the world of The Assault because he is the one who people knows as the the young man who had his parents taken away because of a murder. We do not know anybody like him in our everyday life so we believe that it is possible that somewhere in the world there is someone special like him.

Many people believe in fate but there are no scientific proofs for fate. Anton keeps on meeting these people who are key to finding out the truth behind the night that has changed him. He meets them at random places when he is not even looking for them. This might seem like just a coincidence but it is not possible for someone in real life to be completely dependent on fate. But it is very credible because they all seem like mere coincidences that happen years apart from each other. In the book the author makes fate into a real thing. But Anton is not the only interesting and credible character in the book.

In The Assault Anton is the main character and he is a special one. The main character in The White Tiger is the same. He is a very believable character but impossible to exist in the physical world. The odds are against the existence of a personality like Balram. The inspector who visits his school even calls him The White Tiger; which means he is the different one from the others he is special. The other made us believe that Balram was real when the only reality in Balram is that he is a work of fiction.  

Balram starts it the poorest of the cities in India. The odds for him to ever be successful coming from the darkness are so small that impossible in the normal world. He is the only kid that can read and write. He is different from the others and also as he was working in the tea shop he would educate himself. Those are the kind of stuff that sounds credible but impossible. If you are uneducated from the start you have no reason to be educated. You don’t even know how to be educated. And it is impossible for someone that is that badly educated to end up writing letters that are of such complexity. He has become a philosopher from nothing. The author makes us believe in the character by telling us he is a special one from the bunch, he is the White Tiger.

Also it is very hard to get away with murder leaving that many evidence, especially if you are only a driver. If we take in consideration how corrupted India is it is nearly impossible to get away killing someone who is socially higher and richer. This makes the story interesting but at the same and people believe it as if it was a true story. But in the real world this would have never happened. Or the chances are very slim for it to happen. This is why Balram is The White Tiger.

In both the arts of fiction The White Tiger and The Assault, the characters are impossible to exist in the real world we live in. But we do not think of that as we read us belive in their personalities. The authors make it possible by classifying them as special people. Like the White tiger or the one from the night of the assault. They are made apart from normal society.