![]() ![]() Archie and Samad-then 17 and 18, respectively-were stationed together in a tank patrolling Eastern Europe. Clara and Alsana become friends as a “rearguard action against their husbands’ friendship” (63), which dates back to 1945. Feeling adrift, Clara marries Archie just six weeks after they meet.Īrchie is good friends with a Bangladeshi immigrant named Samad Iqbal, who is also recently married to a young woman-Alsana Begum. When Ryan converted to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, however, the couple broke up. ![]() As a teenager, Clara rebelled against her childhood faith and began dating a boy named Ryan Topps, who introduced her to the commune crowd. ![]() Here, he meets and falls in love with a 19-year-old Jamaican immigrant named Clara Bowden.Ī flashback shows that Clara’s mother, Hortense, is a devout Jehovah’s Witness, and Clara was raised in anticipation of the coming apocalypse. Elated by the prospect of a second chance, Archie makes his way to an “End of the World” party staged by a hippie commune. His attempt is interrupted, however, and Archie experiences a change of heart. Following his failed marriage, and in despairing of his generally mundane existence, Archie flipped a coin and decided to take his life. White Teeth opens on New Year’s Day, 1975, with the attempted suicide of a middle-aged Englishman named Archie Jones. ![]()
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