PROMPT

For this week, I'd like you to consider the effect that anti-humanism has on your sense of poverty (and perhaps of the injustice that poverty creates) in Adiga's novel. Is it the case that the likability of the main character has a consequence on your overall sense of the problems produced by poverty? Are the environmental politics of the novel consistent with your sense of justice (or, if we're all animals, does it make sense to talk about justice)? Similarly, if Balram and Ashok are more or less the same, then what is poverty -- a mode of perception, aesthetics, inactivity?