The White Tiger relies quite a bit on humor and irony to perform its critique. Using at least two examples from the novel, evaluate how humor and/or irony works in service of critique. You must be clear in your essay what the critique is (given the relative absence of a colonial figure in this novel, do not assume that the critique is of colonialism in an intuitive way). Your conclusion should discuss whether humor is an effective mode of critique, given the novel’s western audience—what are the risks of using humor?

The story of Sons for the Return Home at once depicts racism and patriarchy. Use at least two passages to show how the novel makes conceptual links between these systems of power. As you analyze how the novel makes these conceptual links, you should make an argument for what Wendt is showing readers about the relationship between racism and patriarchy.