Monologue From Changez Character

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Said coined and defines orientalism as the Western conception of the Middle East as exotic others and it constructs “Orientals” as cruel, lazy, clever, and mysterious. Erica complimented Changez’s beard by stating that he looks cute and that the beard brought out his eyes. Changez did not respond to the compliment, but we can assume that Changez liked it and made him want to keep the beard regardless of his mother’s opinion. However, others saw Changez’s beard as a threat. After 9/11, the beard on any Middle Eastern man was associated with the terrorist group behind the attack, Al Qaeda’s founder, Osama Bin Laden. Changez’s mom statement on how he looked like a mouse was a smilie for the mouse and rats in New York; no one wants to see them as no one wants to see a terrorist. Changez didn't fit in anymore with his beard and became subjected to verbal abuse by complete strangers and stares and whispers from his co-workers in Underwood Samson. However, this didn’t make him shave it off as it gave him a sense of his identity.

I’m ready to fight i tried telling myself, but I’m not until I turn on my music but now I think that it is distracting me. Let's do this, it’s now or never. “For Skyrim” I yell.

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If you haven’t used a tampon before, and you don’t have a Phd at the end of your name, it’s hard to hear you. TMI I know, but while you change multiple times, you use them for 24 hours, and up to 4 to 7 days. It is very disturbing to think that our cotton fields are being contaminated to the point that it’s transferring into everything. And now, we’re using something that over the years could endanger our health, or God forbid our future children. And it’s not just tampons, but pads, wipes, washes and so much more. We are our own worst enemy, and we will destroy

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“This is where the knowledge gets dicey. My family and clan are Selkie’s and now you’re entrusted to keep our secret.”

When I and George found Lennie I knew deep inside me, that the dream couldn’t continue. It was just like Santa Claus, everyone believes in it because one person keeps the spirit up. Lennie believed in it and wanted it most but now he can’t stay here and he will probably die. I hope he will be alright because he reminds me of my dog. He needed me and I was dependent on him because otherwise I would turn lonely. It’s the same with George and Lennie where Lennie is my dog and George is me. If Curley and the others find out they will probably kill Lennie and if Lennie dies they might also kill me finally because I’m just an old guy who worked beyond his usefulness. I don’t want to die yet so I asked George if he knew whether we could continue

I have something I need to tell you. It feels weird announcing this, because nothing has changed. I feel exactly as I’ve always felt, and I’m still the same person I’ve always been, I’ve just accepted a few things. It  almost feels pointless to say, because it seems so obvious to me, but I think I should tell you anyway. I don’t know how exactly to explain myself, because it’s how I’ve always felt, but I’ll try help you to understand without writing down every thought I’ve ever had.

The speaker I interviewed, Anas Ahmed, is a twenty-three-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas. Anas moved to the United States from Karachi, Pakistan, in 2013, when he was twenty years old and has lived in both Colorado and Texas since then. Anas speaks English, Urdu, Hindi, and can read Arabic.

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It changes everytime you ask. Some say it was a virus, others say it was god punishing us for our sins. At least that’s what the people on the news say. All I know is that the dead are walking among us. I’ve seen people I used to know attack and eat innocent people. Everyday I see my dad walking among them, wishing there something i could have done. I couldn’t bring myself to kill one of the only people i’ve loved. He attacked me but i managed to fight him off and i’ve been held up in my house ever since. It’s a small house, nothing fancy, in a small town near Chicago called Glenview. Everyday I think about my half brother that lived in New York with his mom. After my dad and his mom split I didn’t think life could get any worse, I was

First, the novel talked a lot about stereotypes. Changez was Pakistani. When he came to America, he was faced with a lot of tension with people. When 9/11 took place, he was detained at the airport after flying back to New York. The beginning of the book even showed how Changez was faced with someone that had a stereotype of middle eastern people.

In the monologue, ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’, written by Mohsin Hamid, the protagonist is Changez, a Pakistani moves to America to pursue his Princeton degree, traces his journey of his adaption to American society, including his college life, his job at Underwood Samson, and his connection to an American girl. The assertion that “I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker” is not a valid point because he begins with defining himself as an American at the start. Whereas after the devastating effects of 9/11, and in consequence how Muslims were treated, Changez see’s the seeds of resentment on the surface, and becomes more patriotic towards Lahore. Likewise, his egocentricity starts to resonate as

The Reluctant Fundamentalist written by Mohsin Hamid, tells the story of a young Pakistani named Changez, who arrived at Princeton at the vulnerable age of 18. Four years later he graduated “without having received a single B”(4), and began working at the elite valuation firm Underwood Samson. Changez was, in the beginning, infatuated with the idea of the American Dream, but at length he realized that the new life he had adopted in New York constituted a betrayal of his deepest self, and finally returned home. However, although Changez’s story took place in American, the plot was actually set in Lahore,