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The Right Passengers
The Right Passengers 1)
The story of “the right Passengers” is about a man from Pakistan named Nadeem. He lives in the United States, where he drives a taxi. One night, past midnight and driving through Manhattan, is he looking for the right passengers, after he spend some hours in traffic and thereby need some costumers. He finds this couple, also a Pakistani man, together with some American girl he just met that night. When Nadeem finds out that the boy is also from Pakistan, he starts to be conscious about what the gentleman, as Nadeem calls him, is doing. The girl and the boy annoy Nadeem with all their kissing and grabbing on each other, and since they’re both drunk, he takes a longer way to their destination so he can earn some more money. Nadeem tries to interrupt what they are doing in the backseat and ask the boy if he is married, since most Pakistani people gets married away. Then the girl is being set off, the gentleman and Nadeem talks about “using” America, and then the gentleman falls asleep, and soon Nadeem is at the destination where the boy lives.

2) Nadeem Riaz is a middle classed legal immigrant in American. He drives taxi for living, feeding his family on that salary he gets paid driving that taxi. He is a very original Pakistani man, believing in the Quran, that mean he is a religious man, who has got married away when he was younger. When the boy and girl enter his taxi, he just think about the money at first, but immediately when he begin to drive, their kisses really gets on his nerves. He thinks they’re being so rude to him and his cap. He is normally a good citizen, but can’t stand when another of his own “race” disgrace their culture.

3) Nadeem is taking Faisals’ voice too serious. He is just drunk, actually trying to be nice to him.
I think Nadeem should relax some more than that reaction he show us. I don’t understand their culture; it’s normally in Denmark to be like that. Faisal is pushing the wrong button when

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