The main character of this story is Parvez. He is a man who has adapted to the British culture, and is happy with his free-will life. His life consisted of working at night, sleeping in the day, and providing a decent living for his family. Parvez then finds a glitch in his family, "everything is going from his room [Ali]. And I can't talk to him any more. We were not father and son- we were brothers! Where has he gone?" (694). At this point Parvez accepts that there is something going on in Ali's life and knows he is no longer included in it. He views this as a problem and wishes to fix it. When Parvez realizes that Ali has found a liking to the Islamic religion he tries to understand Ali's new infatuation, but fails miserably because of their points of view in life, and what is wrong and right. Although Parvez is determined to tie relations with his son again, " he was now willing to pray, if that was what the boy wanted" (697). At the same time he notices he has another problem, "he went more to the whisky bottle he realized it was imperative to
The main character of this story is Parvez. He is a man who has adapted to the British culture, and is happy with his free-will life. His life consisted of working at night, sleeping in the day, and providing a decent living for his family. Parvez then finds a glitch in his family, "everything is going from his room [Ali]. And I can't talk to him any more. We were not father and son- we were brothers! Where has he gone?" (694). At this point Parvez accepts that there is something going on in Ali's life and knows he is no longer included in it. He views this as a problem and wishes to fix it. When Parvez realizes that Ali has found a liking to the Islamic religion he tries to understand Ali's new infatuation, but fails miserably because of their points of view in life, and what is wrong and right. Although Parvez is determined to tie relations with his son again, " he was now willing to pray, if that was what the boy wanted" (697). At the same time he notices he has another problem, "he went more to the whisky bottle he realized it was imperative to