Brief Summary Of The Novel 'White Teeth' By Zadie Smith

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White teeth by Zadie Smith is a book about mainly two families with different racial and religious backgrounds. The two main male characters of the book are Archie and Samad they were both in the same unit in WW2. The two main female characters Clara and Alsana are two young woman that married Archie and Samad. Clara married Archie and Alsana married Samad. Clara married Archie because of her mother extremely religious life, she was a Jehovah’s Witness and also because of her difficult immigrant status. Alsana had an arranged married to Samad. The book addresses racial issues such as race and the idea of identity and being English. This is very familiar to me because as a young Latina daughter of immigrants I have experience racial discrimination