The White Teeth Audience Theme Hypothesis Zadie Smith's world wasn't a made-up fairyland with an elvish language, ethereal metaphors, or green settings, no, in the His novel, White Teeth, was a clear reflection of the kind of society he lived in. A society where everything you see may be an interpretation of what society wants from you, a misrepresentation found in the comfortable ideals of Euro-centric beauty that were hard to achieve and yet were so sought after, no matter the amount of pain or the crippling amount of self-hatred that seems to creep into your life and alter your perception of yourself. This is what Smith explores. Now I may have an unfair idea of ​​why Smith wrote the types of characters he did, so realistic in their flaws and ways, yet he claims that the book's settings were created by mixing pieces of literary works he had read from in precedence. the young age, mind you, White Teeth was written while he was at university, was what made him so interesting. Why does a book that follows the lives of people of different races arouse so much interest in others? It's the fact that so many can say yes that resonates with me, I know the struggle, I know what this character is going through (see that's when a novel becomes more than the false hope that young adult novels seem to advertise through the false sense that this is the real world, beige characters who seem to reject the multifaceted characteristics that make them tangible and attainable) compared to the usual book with almost all white characters like the one in most popular children's books? What happens in the literary world if we fail to create connections with the character... in the middle of the paper... who is subject to stereotypes, it is he who will have to come in and make people realize that one is not the same as the others. Now, how does Zadie Smith employ this incorporation of a modern world? Through humor. The syntax itself is cryptic within the novel containing little jabs towards one's character. Archie is excited at the thought of having a baby with blue eyes, but Maureen on the other hand pities Archie for how unaware he is of someone's nature or background, "he always talks to Pakistanis and Caribbeans like he doesn't even know shrewd,” Maureen is even amazed that Archie didn’t bother to mention “what color [Clara] was until the office dinner.” The excerpt subtly underlines the disgust most show towards Archie. It's passive racism that happens under the radar and some don't even call it that.