The reluctant fundamentalist not only focuses on fundamentalism but focuses on values that change identity The reluctant fundamentalist is written by Mohsin Hamid and was published in 2007 exploring the resulting of Americans attitude towards Muslims after the September 11 attacks (9/11). The novel is presented as a monologue‚ Hamid made the novel shift between the past and the present. Changez‚ the protagonist‚ is an articulate and highly intelligent Pakistani who struggles with his identity
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at‘Despite the use of the first person narrative in The Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ Changez remains a stranger to us in the novel.’ Do you agree? In the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ Mohsin Hamid has used the first person narrative to let Changez tells the reader a story. We are shown the way that first person narrative only tells one side of the story‚ in this case‚ it is only Changez telling the story and speaking for the American and this creates the reader with no other perspectives of
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In The Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ the narrator is a very pleasing‚ intelligent individual named Changez. Changez is speaking with an unnamed American man throughout the entire novel‚ and is doing so without the conversational input of the American. In other words‚ this novel is one strung out monologue‚ seeing as Changez is the only one to speak or think. This puts the reader in a situation in which he or she has no other choice but to listen to the narrator and take everything that he says at
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generosity and assertiveness in action when a management consultant I’ll call Erica put in for a transfer from Southeast Asia to New York. Erica was and is the model of a giver. She routinely volunteers for unpopular projects‚ gives up vacation time to help her manager‚ sacrifices personal time to go the extra mile for clients‚ and mentors analysts whom her colleagues view as lost causes. After living abroad for several years‚ Erica was ready to return to the US. Her ideal location was NYC‚ because she
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“Why does Changez feel out of place in both America and Pakistan?” Mohsin Hamid’s first-person novel “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” details the fictional story of a young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street‚ and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American dream and the unrelenting tug of his ties to his homeland. After being inducted into the corporate world of America when beginning work at Underwood Sampson‚ the novels protagonist‚ Changez becomes
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that poverty makes people have a terrible life and fail‚ but poverty actually helps people to strive for more. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Arnold goes to Reardon because he wanted to be better‚ in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Changez goes to Princeton to get a good job so that he can support his family and live a good life‚ and in “The Balek Scales” by Heinrich Böll the Grandfather investigates the legibility of the scales to get more money. Changez
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THE WEST AND ITS OTHER: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11 MOHAN G. RAMANAN University of Hyderabad mohan1949@rediffmail.com 125 Terror is now a part of our lives. Whether it is the bombing of defenceless villages in Afghanistan or Iraq‚ or the slaying of Daniel Pearl‚ terror is perpetrated by different people for different purposes. Terror is the employment of strategies to instill fear and insecurity in the victim. This can be achieved by the deliberate targeting of women and children as
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Erica raced into Alivias’ bedroom at 6:30 pm. Alivia shook her head as she eyed all of Ericas’ stuff. She knew that Erica was going to transform her into something she had never seen before and suddenly she felt nervous. Erica slid her iPod out of her bag and walked over to the wooden nightstand. She pushed the ‘iPod’ into the docking station and turned up the volume. She plugged in the hot Iron and placed it on the nightstand. Alivia sat on the edge of her bed‚ staring at Erica as she threw a
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Chapter Three Review Complete the following cloze summary by filling in the appropriate word (or words). Chapter three begins with Changez directly addressing the American again. He comments on the American’s ______________ and then describes the way Old Anarkali becomes a pedestrian-only area in the evening. He then says that when he moved to New York‚ it had felt like coming home. He gives several ____________ why he had felt so comfortable. When he was
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“Light of the World” by Brian McKenzie Fade IN: (1) EXT. ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK – DAY An older jeep type vehicle is driving on the winding road across the mountain ridges. We follow from a distance while the credits display in the lower left. The trees are lush and there is a summer breeze. (2) EXT. GAS STATION – LATE IN THE DAY The jeep arrives at the gas station‚ and 20 year old Mike steps out. He stops‚ adjust his hat and heads
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