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    communities. It is important for people to eliminate these 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

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    Introduction The Reluctant Fundamentalist‚ like many first-person narratives‚ is a fictional autobiography. Changez‚ the protagonist‚ is an intellectually ripe and mature narrator who looks back on his past happenings during his stay in America. Although he is only twenty five at the time of narrating the story‚ he feels his life completely over-turned rather metamorphosed. Like many first-person narrators‚ he has become wiser after his experiences in America on 9/11---the time when history is

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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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    setting up of this hegemonic force is calculated so judiciously‚ that it seems justified in itself. Thus‚ this force hovers around the globe today and influenced 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‚

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    immigrants. There are even political cries to prevent immigrants from coming to the United States. Why is this? Two 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

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    Lesson Objective To understand the concept of nostalgia and how it is a theme in ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. A warning: This will stray a little into ‘Whose Reality?’ territory‚ but remember that this is a text response and whenever you mention nostalgia in a text response essay‚ it must be when directly discussing the text. NO general discussion of the concept is allowed! Definition The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past‚ often in idealised form. Nostalgia is often

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    analysis of the two diverse novels- Don DeLillo’sFalling Man (2007) and Mohsin 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

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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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    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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    definitively recognizable or known is their identity. A person’s behavior‚ his/her background‚ the inevitable bits and pieces of his/her nature and history sown together make him/her who he/she are. Changez is the protagonist of the Novel “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Mohsin Hamid. His character is complex and diverse from the rest. It is volatile and his perspective of his identity is irresolute. By this I mean that his understanding of who he is constantly being altered through the course of the

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