![]() ![]() Harris supports Hanna and Papa as well, promoting their moral characteristics to the crowd at the school board meeting. ![]() ![]() Hanna finds only a few allies initially, such as Miss Walters, who shows the school children with a simple activity that in fact everyone in LaForge is from someplace else. She keeps away from the windows of the rented rooms as well, lest someone see her before Papa has a chance to make a few acquaintances and to share the promise of a new business for the town. From the moment she walks into the hotel room on her arrival to the town, she takes care based on past experiences to hide who she is: “With her bonnet tied on firmly and the load piled high in her arms, her face was mostly hidden from view” (14). Hanna faces racism and intolerance from many in LaForge. ![]()
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In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the naiad Daphne is transformed into a laurel tree to escape the lustful attentions of the god Apollo. ![]() ![]() Pals since they served together in World War II, Archie and Samad are a decidedly unlikely pair. ![]() When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel.Įpic and intimate, hilarious and poignant, White Teeth is the story of two North London families-one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal. Archie-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt-is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. 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I went from a vague agnostic live-and-let-live attitude to a full blown distrust and dislike of mass worshipping of mysterious deities. ![]() The last ten years have mutated my views on religion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Under pressure of the Great War, which “unbalanced forever an enfeebled Europe,” writers- particularly Kafka, Hašek, Musil, and Broch, whom Kundera calls “the pleiad of great Central European novelists”-“saw, felt, grasped the terminal paradoxes of the Modern Era.” According to Kundera, all existential categories suddenly changed their meaning: The Czech writer Milan Kundera in his collection of critical essays The Art of the Novel (1988) offers a definition of the novel as “a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters,” while providing “my personal conception of the European novel.” In Kundera’s analysis, European novelists, beginning with Cervantes, “discovered the various dimensions of existence”: in the nature of adventure (Cervantes), “what happens inside” (Richardson), man’s rootedness in history (Balzac), the terra previously incognita of the everyday (Flaubert), the impact of the irrational on human behavior (Tolstoy), the force of the present and past (Joyce and Proust, respectively), and the role of ancient myth plays in shaping present action (Mann). 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