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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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    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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    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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    Title: Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator Author(s): Kent Cartwright Publication Details: Papers on Language and Literature 20.2 (Spring 1984): p218-232. Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Vol. 157. Detroit: Gale‚ 2005. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay Bookmark: Bookmark this Document Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning [(essay date spring 1984) In the following essay‚ Cartwright discusses

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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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    Essay Outline In J.D. Salinger ’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ the narrator‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is an unreliable narrator. Discuss and analyze the text to support your argument. “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life” (Salinger 14). JD Salinger’s character Holden Caulfield admits himself that he is unreliable. The author portrays Holden as a teenage boy that brobdingnagianly lies to people that he doesn’t know. This makes the reader question if he lying to us? Holden does lie on many

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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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    Holden Caulfield: An Unreliable Narrator In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield is the narrator; throughout the story he shows to be an unreliable and reliable narrator. Caulfield is a teenage boy‚ who is psychologically depressed and confused. To be an unreliable narrator‚ the narrator must be biased‚ a liar‚ and unable to associate with other characters in the novel. These are all characteristics that prove the Holden is an unreliable narrator throughout the development of the novel. http://search

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    until the end of the story. The withholding of information makes the reader wonder what the lottery is and this creates suspense. This in turn keeps the reader absorbed in the story. * Unreliable narrator The story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe has an unreliable narrator. The narrator is unreliable because Montresor is paranoid

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