Zadie Smith's White Teeth

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September 22, 2015
Have you ever stopped to think about what your beliefs truly are? Are they what they “ought” to be? Do you ever wonder about the cultural history of your family? Zadie Smith brings up both of these topics in her book White Teeth, portraying many different sides of each. The story takes place in England in an area with many different cultures coming together, mainly English, Jamaican and Bangladeshi, for purposes of this story. All have different religious beliefs and cultural differences but not everyone follows their historical beliefs throughout their life and certainly not faithfully. Religious moralities and race, ethnicity and multiculturalism are two moral theories that can shed some light onto the messages within …show more content…

This program brought forward a lot of objections from many different organizations based on their individual beliefs. One shocking, or maybe not so shocking, disbeliever was his son Joshua. Being pushed away by his distracted parents, Joshua joined the group FATE, an animal rights organization, who did not believe in using animals as test subjects. Millat and his group KEVIN, did not agree with the works of Marcus because he was interfering with the works of God. FutureMouse conducted tests with mice by modifying their DNA and creating cancerous cells, which in KEVINS’s view, was interfering with what God intended. The last group that did not approve of Marcus’ work, were the Jehovah Witnesses, one in particular being Hortense Bowden. She went on to protest the work in the name of a different god than …show more content…

Neither were the best to give their daughter Irie a firm hold on what her family’s religion or culture was. While others didn’t seem to care where they came from and found their own passions and way of life, Irie wanted to know where she came from as a way to identify herself. She was not a confident girl and she thought that knowing her background, especially where her parents were so different, she might able to figure out who she was, or maybe who she was supposed to be. Unlucky for her, it did not satisfy that need that she was looking for and only found things that made her more upset with life in general, so her soul searching would

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