Balram’s Struggle to Reach the Higher Social Status in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

This study aims to explain about Balram’s struggle to reach the higher social class, from lower class becomes upper class in the novel The White Tiger written by Aravind Adiga. The explanation from this study is talk about the depiction of lower class from their place, education opportunity, job opportunity and health opportunity, and also the depiction of upper class that representation from four characters that full of power. The purpose of this thesis is to explain the depiction of social class to describe Balram’s struggle to reach the higher social class and to explain the impacts of Balram’s struggle to his life. In this thesis, the author uses Marxist theory and focuses on social class theory. The result of this study shows that there are two classes in the novel, they are lower class and upper class, Balram’s struggle to reach the higher social class by working as a waiter in tea-shop, a driver, the main driver, and starting a car rental business with the stolen money. And the impact of Balram struggle is he moves into another city to start his new life.