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British Literature Since 1798, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, A…

- - - - Leah's character centers around the idea of hospitality and being willing to let someone in. She always puts her community first no matter if others may view her willingness to let people in as silly, ignorant or foolish.
        
        NW by Zadie Smith
        
        Unlike Leah, the narrative places emphasis on the disconnect between people, that those from one place can end up so far away from one another no matter the physcial closeness.
        
        Michel
        
        Leaves a gap between him and his community
        
        His belief in social mobility keeps him from understanding others
        
        "I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me" (Smith, 3).
        
        "Leah is as faithful in her allegiance to this two-mile square of the city as other people are to their families or their countries" (Smith, 6).
- - - - "He was conscious that an even wider gulf now divided Riggs and himself ... It was Riggs, and not himself, who was the time-traveller" (Ballard, 179).
    - - Thatcherism
        
        Eva who started with genuine ideas, descended into a ruthless materialist who no longer looks for opportunities for genuine art but rather opportunities for success.
        
        "We have to empower ourselves. Look at those people who live on sordid housing estates. They expect others - the Government - to do everything for them" (Kureshi, 263).
      - "For Eleanor's crowd, hard words and sophisticated ideas were the air they breathed from birth, and this language was the currency that bought you the best of what the world could offer. But for us it could only ever be a second language, consciously acquired" (Kureshi, 178).
  - - - "The biological mapping had become a pointless game, the new flora following exactly the emergent lines anticipated twenty years earlier, and he was sure that no one at Camp Byrd in Northern Greenland bothered to file his reports, let alone read them" (Ballard, 19).
- - - - "He had killed himself - but how? Always her body went through it first, when she was told suddenly of an accident; her dress flamed, her body burnt" (Woolf, 184).