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    negative stereotypes by embracing their culture. The two novels i.e. The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Persepolis were all written for the same purpose. They both highlight the culture conflict of Muslim people because of a Western culture that is affecting the dynamics of their lives in various ways that they cannot be able to comprehend. In the Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ it is basically a monologue whereby the lead character Changez‚ go to the USA for an academic scholarship at the Princeton University

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    Chapter 1! 1. Changez claim’s that he is American as he has short cropped hair‚ expansive chest which are typical for americans and because of his ‘bearings’. ! ! 2. “I have access to this beautiful campus‚ I thought‚ to professor who are titans in their fields and fellow students who are philosopher-kings in the making.”! “Princeton made everything possible for me. But it did not‚ could now‚ make forget such things as how i enjoy the tea in this‚ the city of my birth‚ steeped long enough

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    non-American authors who have spent time in America examine this divide between the Americans and immigrants. In their novels‚ The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ both Hamid and Kincaid utilize American immigrants’ outsider view to demonstrate how Americans have an attitude of privilege that alienates non-Americans. Whereas Hamid uses Changez‚ an upper middle class Pakistani man‚ to focus on how privilege contributes to arrogance‚ Kincaid uses Lucy‚

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    every individual from every society. Nevertheless‚ in this novella‚ The Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ we shall also looks at how the protagonist‚ biologically a Pakistani guy‚ is being trapped in the web of hegemonic influence of America. The protagonist of the novel‚ Changez‚ has a very common view as that of the masses about the West‚ especially the United States of America. Many of us feel that we define our own life despite being born in any society or community‚ but it is not the ultimate truth

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    “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” – Where to belong? An analysis of the relationship between Erica and Changez & Changez’ development What is a reluctant fundamentalist? To be reluctant is to have feelings of aversion. A fundamentalist is one who holds on to any set of principles. Then the term of being a reluctant fundamentalist is somewhat an ironic term in this context‚ because our main character is a person who is not sure what beliefs he should adhere to. The novel “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”

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    Diasporic Life in The Reluctant Fundamentalist It is no secret that life for Muslims‚ not just in America but globally‚ has gotten more difficult than it already was pre-September 11th. Naber’s Arab Americans and U.S Racial Formations as well as Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist exemplify the issues dealing with Muslim diasporic life in America. Post September 11th‚ Muslims and anyone deemed that looks like a Muslim(meaning anyone who has brown skin‚ a beard‚ and facial features that the Nazi’s

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    Movie Review The Reluctant Fundamentalist It is not easy to do justice to a book just quite as dynamic as Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ yet Mira Nair has done a spectacular job of bringing to film what Hamid did to literature. The movie features extra ordinary talent from the East and the West. The esteemed Om Puri who plays a virtuoso poet along with Shabana Azmi grace the screen with their presence playing parents to a spoilt Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed)‚ whilst Pakistani singer/actress

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    ESL TEXT RESPONSE ESSAY – The Reluctant Fundamentalist The novel is presented in the form of one man’s monologue. Discuss the effects of this narrative structure. 808 words ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid uses the narrative technique monologue‚ which is a long uninterrupted speech of a character directly addressing another character or the audience. The use of monologue facilitates Hamid’s viewpoints to go across the reader effortlessly. The effect of the usage of monologue is

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    19 April 2011 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Journal Entries (Pages 1-50) After reading for a few pages‚ it seemed almost as if the main character of the book‚ Changez‚ implicates the reader (us) as the person who he is talking to‚ and I thought that was a unique aspect of this book‚ unlike many other books. The American man that Changez is actually speaking to‚ I thought it was very strange how he was wearing a full suit‚ especially in a place like Lahore where the weather is extremely humid

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    Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) will help to explore the ideas and misconceptions that rule us at a personal level which in turn contributes to our public outlook. Post the 9/11 attacks‚ there has been a dramatic change in the way the world views the Muslims‚ the “perpetrators”‚ and Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist perfectly captures the transition of New York after the attacks. Falling Man on the other hand delves into the deep-rooted havoc that the attacks have caused in the life of the

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