Just in the second paragraph you can see the importance of color that is used throughout the story.
The second paragraph mentions 8 different colors and its not even that long of a paragraph! Color is brought up numerous times, did anyone else pick up on this? The Asian Women's Centre was also painted a bright orange, is this the narrator trying to neutralize things at the end of the story?!
You also have "the white liberal nightmare" which would be translated into the white terror, where the clashing of cultures is portrayed through color references. You have the red, blue, or yellow men at the communist rally.
Magid is trying to get everyone to "love and stuff" and he wants all the cultures to mix together and he thinks everything would be much nicer.
But unfortunately not everyone wants all the cultures to unite and you see even his own brother doesn't want this.
I actually did not notice the color thing, but I can see how that would play into the theme of the story (accepting one another, learning to live with one another) especially with that random comment from the mom to the tutor...something about "we shouldn't get to close" (I should look that up, but I think you know what I mean). The brother does not want the cultures to unite? Are you referring to the British culture and his ethnic culture? (I just assumed he was embarrassed to show that side of him in public.)
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