Blog 3:

In chapter seven of Zadie Smith's White Teeth novel titled "Molars", it talks about of the significance of teeth to humans in my point of view. Mr. J.P. hamilton, an old man whom Magid, Millat and Irie were assigned for charity work in honor of the Harvest Festival, was a senile person and advice the young ones on the importance of dental hygiene. There is a statement that Mr. Hamilton made that actually caught my attention to the text. In this chapter, he made a statement saying that "One sometimes forgets the significance of one's teeth. We're not like the lower animals-teeth replaced regularly and all that-we are of the mammals, you see." (Smith, 144). This statement stands out to me because he was trying to point out to the children how important the teeth is in human communication. The teeth is a vital tool in human communication because it is one of the main non verbal communication tools to help begin effective communication between people from all backgrounds. There are so many different races, ethinicities, cultures, and backgrounds of humans around the world. Among all these different race and ethnicities, every group of people have their own ways of understanding each other with their own languages. For example, Chinese people understand their own people when they are communicating in their own language. But when a Chinese person meets an African person, communication will be difficult to begin because they do not spak the same language. But when either one of them smiles first, it will send a positive message to the other that they are pleased to meet them, and therefore, the other person will also return a positive response with a smile. this means that smiling, in which the teeth is responsible for, even builds positive bridges between people of different races even though they might not speak the same language. So this context to me, is why Mr. Hamilton was serious to Millat, Magid and Irie about the care of ones teeth. I also believe that, the brighter your smile, the more positive message you send to people.

Blog 2

In the Root canals of Hortense Bowden, Alsana and Clara had the idea in their that a little education of English can be dangerous. Clara also went on to say that the English people are the kind of people who would teach and steal from people at the same time. I basically think the reason why they thought about English people that way is that, they remember their grandparents going through the same at the hands of the English people. for example, Clara's grandmother was impregnated by Captain Carlie Durham when he was renting a room for her mother. At the same time, he was educating her. so in this context, the English people can educate the colored women and at the same time use them sexually.

White Teeth Chapter

In between chapters 12 to chapter 15 of White Teeth novel by Zadie Smith, which starts with "The Ripping Teeth", talks about two couples in the characters of Marcus and Joyce Chalfen. these married couple began their relationship when they met in the university. they married and had very intelligent sons. Two youngsters named Millat and Irie were sent in to spend some time in the household of the Chalfens as a form of their own punishment. But contrary to the punishment, they were warmly welcomed by the Chalfens into their household. openly talked to them about race and sexual issues. Joyce was fascinated in Millat and even thought he was beautiful and that she sees him as a charity case. She also opens to both youngsters about how the reason of their problems are the fact that they dont have a good father figure in their lives. but as time went on, on of their sons named Josh, becomes annoyed by Millat because of certain behaviors he showed towards Joyce.The more she shows generosity and kindness to Millat, the more he uses her generosity to continue to show deviant behaviors like smokng, swearing, drinking and destroying. The weird issue to me was that, the more he shows those behaviors, the more Joyce gets more connected to him. And on the other hand, Irie's improvement makes Joyce lose interest in her as she also begins to get closer to Joyces' Husband, Marcus. This picture drawn here makes it very strange because how can Joyce get attached more to Millat, who is not learning anything good for himself but still maintaining a deviant character and lose interest in Irie, who was ready to improve herself and evening learning fron Marcus about the study of genetics of mouse embryos. Meanwhile, Alsana and Clara were getting disturbed about Millat and Irie spending a lot of time at the Chalfens' house and they got worried that the children being adopted into the English language and becoming a part of it. To me, even tho the relationship between the Chalfen couples and Irie and Millat were somehow disturbing Clara and Alsana, there was improvement at the end of the day. Irie and Millat improved very well on their grades and therefore it led to both families having a barbecue together. But again Alsana refused to thank Joyce at the barbecue but Clara went on to thank her. i personally liked what clara did at that point and that was also definitely unappreciative of Alsana to not show some appreciation. I like the Chalfen couple because they took their precious time that they could use to do something else to improve the academic skills of someone elses children and make them better. But the statement that Joyce made about the children being intelligent in their genes but not raised well was a true point but i personally think she could have said it in a nicer way to Clara.

blog 1: Literature Relationship

Literature has indeed made a lot of change about my mindset about the English language. Ever since i started studying literature, it has opened my mind and enabled me to be more grammatically skillful in my English writing. It has exposed me to know more elements of writing like the use of idiomatic expressions and other figures of speech. Most literature books that i have read are mostly made of fiction but at the same time provide interesting aspects of life that we as human beings can mostly relate to. one example of literaure stories is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakepeare. the Romeo and Juliet story is about two different young people from two diferent families which enemies of each other. But the love between Romeo and Juliet brought the two different families together even though the story ended on a sad note. Even though it is a fictional story, we can still see a lot of these situations happening in our lives or in the lives of others. Another literature story known as Taming of the Shrew, which was also written by William Shakespeare, was a comedy type of story which depicted a very young beautiful and arrogant, stubborn woman named Katherine, who was viewed by the society as an uncontrollable woman and therefore everyone thought no man can humble her character. but along came a man named Petruchio, who took the bold step to marry Katherineand gradually changed the disrespectful woman into a presentable and humble wife. This is also another aspect that is seen in people's lives everyday. Some people reviewed the Taming of the Shrew as "battle of the sexes" under one roof as Petruchio went through the struggles of training and shaping Katherine into the woman that he wanted her to be. At the first stage of the marriage she was rebelling. But as time went on, he found his own strategies and patiently transformed the lady into a calm and respectful wife.