Archie Jones

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Archie Jones is a middle-aged, working-class Englishman of Jamaican war-veteran background whose unlikely friendship with the intellectual Bengali Muslim Samad Iqbal anchors the multicultural, intergenerational narrative of Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn White Teeth NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme friendship
identity
immigration
multiculturalism
createdBy Zadie Smith NERFINISHED
firstAppearanceYear 2000
firstAppearsIn White Teeth NERFINISHED
hasAge middle-aged
hasBackground working-class Englishman of Jamaican war-veteran background
hasChild Irie Jones NERFINISHED
hasCulturalContext multicultural Britain
hasEthnicBackground Jamaican
hasFriend Samad Iqbal NERFINISHED
hasMilitaryBackground war veteran
hasNationality English
hasOccupation printer
hasPersonalityTrait amiable
passive
hasRelationshipTypeWith Samad Iqbal unlikely friendship
hasResidence London NERFINISHED
hasSocialClass working class
hasSpouse Clara Bowden NERFINISHED
narrativeRole anchor of intergenerational narrative
protagonist
servedIn World War II NERFINISHED
setInWork postwar London NERFINISHED

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White Teeth protagonist Archie Jones