Wider Reading Flashcards
‘Talk…walk…sit’
Jende from Behold The Dreamers
‘life was different after 9/11’
Waris from Girl, Woman, Other by Everisto
‘White picket fences and newly mowed lawns’
The Buddha In The Attic by Julia Ostaka
‘Called me Arab, I’m not even Arab’
Waris from Girl, Woman, Other by Everisto
‘happy holidays’ Indian christmas cards by Ashima
The Name Sake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Chinese migrants set up restaraunts
Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet
‘we cant get jobs’
Mo in The Lonely Londers
Marriage of conveniences stories
Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Buddha In The Attic
‘the land of promise’
Chen in Sour Sweet
‘There wasn’t a soul to be seen as dark-coloured as me’
A Long Way Home
‘for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind’
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
‘The coat was the colour of a bride’s sari.’
Nazneen from Monica Ali’s, Brick Lane
‘a rat-hole of a room occupied by a dozen other immigrants’ (on human trafficking)
America and I by Anzia Yezierska
‘Only i couldn’t find it - my America’
America and I by Anzia Yezierska
“The job is everything Ashoke had ever dreamed of”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Gogol and Sonia know these people, but they do not feel as close to them as their parents do’
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
‘they travel to and from New York, returning with pockets full of dollars’
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
‘Marry me. I’ll take you to America’
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
‘La Capital is in chaos. No law or order to speak of.’
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
‘Well dunno, Africa ain’t it?’
Tommy Atkins, Small Island
‘we members of the British Empire’
Gilbert, Small Island
‘savages, jungles and swinging through trees’
Gilbert, Small Island
‘opportunity is ripe out there’
Gilbert, Small Island
‘They’re not our sort’
Bernard, Small Island
‘no brooch or jewel’ ‘scruffy housecoat’
Hortense, Small Island
‘rapidly closing in’ ‘me to detain you’
Changez, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
‘This whole corporate collegiality veneer only goes so deep’
Wainwright, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
‘each tenement was a village square’
Micheal Puzo’s The Fortunate Pligrim
‘the corruption of the innocent by the new land’
Micheal Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim
‘they recalled ancient history and social law’ ‘southern Italy they had escaped’
Micheal Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim
‘Yuck!’ reaction to Dhal
Melanie from ‘Fasting Feating
