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.