White Teeth Sparknotes

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25. In White Teeth, Archie is saved by a butcher by the name of Mo Hussein-Ishmael, “Mo advanced upon Archie’s car pulled the towels sealing the gap in the driver’s window … ‘We’re not licensed for suicides around here. This place is halal’ ” (Smith 18). Mo acts as the fairy god mother in the instance to Archie, as he saves him from pain and eternal sufferings. It is somewhat ironic that Mo who happens to be a butcher, saves a man that is about to commit suicide.
26. Foster defines myth as a forming and managing force of a story and its images; our capacity to clarify ourselves; myths are so profoundly instilled our social memory that they both shape our culture and are formed by it.
27. Foster states that the four struggles of a person are battled with nature, with the …show more content…

Wanting to give up hope because all things have failed. Samad struggles with battling his inner demons, “But Samad wasn’t listening, he was already reciting in his head, repeating two English phrases that he tried hard to believe in, words he had learnt these past ten years in England, words he hoped could protect him from the abominable heat in his trousers: To the pure all things are pure. To the pure all things are pure. To the pure all things are pure. Can’t say fairer than that. Can’t say fairer than that. Can’t say fairer than that” (Smith 167). Samad constantly battles within himself to do what he feels are right for him and his family. He ends up giving to temptation and doesn’t think about the possible outcomes. Throughout the book, Samad feels close to his religion and bases everything around him on what he believes, “He knew his God was having his revenge, he knew the game was up, he saw

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