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Rooster Coop Metaphors

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The rooster coop operates as a complex metaphor for how social systems are constructed in India. The rooster coop metaphor associates the butcher and the chickens they are referenced during the novel numerous occasions. In India the butcher persists to be the master “A man who is prepared to see his family destroyed-haunted, beaten, and burned alive by the master” (Adiga 150). The masters would have to ensure no servants abandon them, as an alternative the servants' family would be “beaten and burned alive” to guarantee no servant will leave. When Balram is telling Mr. Jiabao about the rooster coop system they have in India. Balram mentions that the butcher will be a sitting, “grinning young butcher, showing off the flesh and organs of a recently …show more content…

In some cases masters will tell the servants to “...[take a] black suitcase where his master wants… and never touches a rupee… [they will] stand in dirty, crowded buses” (Adiga 148 & 149). Servants like chickens will not leave and will stay in unpleasant situations just to please their masters. In the rooster coop metaphor like the servants “they do not rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop” (Adiga 147). The servants represent the chickens in this case. Like the chickens they recognize they will die eventually if they stay, but they don't try to escape because the chickens know they will get caught. Therefore the chickens in the coop do what the butcher wants. Once caught in the rooster coop you'll end up in the “poultry market”. The rooster coop metaphor reveals the mindset of the rich and the poor. In the situation if the servant does take their masters suitcase full of diamonds “Why doesn't [the]servant take the suitcase full of diamonds?” (Adiga 149). This reveals that the mindset of the wealthy, they know they can take advantage of their servants because of the “rooster coop”. They have something to lean back on if the servant disobey or

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