The shock of The White Tiger is that it appears from Balram’s office and tone that the killing gained him exactly what he wanted without any repercussions.
And in his final line he reveals the means by which he rises above, the “entrepreneurial act” that sent him on his way to becoming a successful businessman: murder. He looks out over his boyhood town he understands the system of oppression, and by spitting he shows both his scorn for this corrupt system and for those who can’t rise above it, and his choice to cut himself free of it. He is an adventurous mouse who often endangers himself through his reckless but mostly innocent actions. He is the middle child of Mama and Papa Mousekewitz, younger brother of Tanya and older brother to Yasha. His courage to climb up to the fort with its view over Laxmangahr indicates that he has escaped the psychology and fear that keeps the residents of the Darkness oppressed. Fievel Mousekewitz is the main protagonist of the An American Tail series. This belief provides insight into his understanding of himself as a white tiger: someone who is inherently superior, who deserves to be at the top and so is justified in attaining the top by whatever means necessary, and is therefore exempt from certain moral laws. Balram believes his interest in the Black Fort to be a sign that he was by nature destined to overcome his deprived background.
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