What Is Changez A Metaphor For America

There are so many ways that we can change the world we are living in today. I think I would want to change the world by putting a stop on drugs, alcohol, and smoking and making this a serious thing. People have told me that some kind of drugs are good for you and I tell them “that is for the dogs none of that is true” and all I have to say about this is not one drug on this earth is going to help breathe when you wake up the next morning. The reasons people drink is for their own entertainment I have heard about how so many people have drunk to get something off of their mind. Not to be offensive but that is something that hurts other people and hurts you also.” Promising this is the best thing I will ever do” I will never drink any alcohol for the rest of my living days. Every time I turn on the news all I hear about is how people drinking and driving. We all know for sure they can put a ban on items like this but I don’t see it happening any time soon. When I turn on the news to see how people have got diseases from putting a cigarette in their mouth. How would you make a change in world?

This excerpt from the text shows how Fadi was harassed and discriminated against for how he looks. Another reason race is the biggest challenge for immigrants is the culture is very different from where you were from and stereotyping could take place. For example, in the book Shooting Kabul, some bullies show stereotyping. “”Look it’s Osama!” shouted a familiar rough voice… “Why aren’t you with your towel headed friends?” growled the voice again””(144). This shows that race can lead to stereotyping. The bullies show this perfectly by discriminating against Fadi’s people and culture as a whole instead of taking into account that not all people in Afghanistan are terrorists. It also shows how race is a big problem for immigrants. Likewise, in Shooting Kabul, an Afghani is once again discriminated against because of his Afghani culture and looks. Here in the book, Uncle Amin states “”He was attacked because the men thought he was a Muslim since he wore a turban and beard. They blamed him for what happened on September eleventh”(165). This shows that even though an innocent man who had nothing to do with the attack and just had race in common with the attackers was jumped and

Do you remember what I told you that night? That if I hadn’t seen the doctor pull Amir out of my wife, I’d never believe that he is my son? Well, that thought had been crossing my mind a lot these past weeks. Just yesterday, I took him out to watch the yearly Buzkashi tournament. Before we had left, I had sensed a sign of discontent from Amir, but I shrugged it off as if he were tired. Buzkashi was Afghanistan’s passion. It was not possible that an Afghan was not interested. While we sat in the upper bleachers, Amir often looked confused or bored. He would look up at the chapandaz then back down at his fingers. I had told him the sight of a book at the Buzkashi was unbearable, and that he could last a few hours without burying his face in one. Although his eyes were on the horses, I knew by his gaze he knew next to nothing about Bazkashi. So I decided to point out my long time favourite chapandaz, Henry Kissinger. Before Amir had time to respond, I saw his eyes dart to the far end of the stadium. A chapandaz fell off his saddle and was crushed under the hooves of the horses. Slowly, Amir’s face changed from shock to mournful. How is it that this is my son? This rather quiet, bookish, feminine

Changez’s beard represents his identity and is associated with the term orientalism. Changez could have easily chosen to wear a kurta every day instead of a beard to identify with his Pakistani identity. However, with cultural appropriation and the exotic concept of a kurta, it would not have been a strong enough sense of identity for Changez as a beard naturally is.

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all around him. She had become a physical necessity.”

When I first laid eye on the book,which was given to me by my great English Dr. Sameer Ismaeel, Al-Najah university,I thought it was another book of how miserable Arabs are in the United States.These stories are fimiliar in the Arab world.People are divided into two categories,those who glorify America and make it the dream land of everything.And,those who tare it apart and only see rape,drugs and carelessness.Genuinely,both are incorrect,as America is just

Personification- “ Her body seemed foreign somehow” (94). O’Brien is comparing her body to someone that Fossie does not know because of how different and distant she became to him.

Amir thought, “I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan – the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past…. Or I could run. In the end, I ran.” (Hosseini, 82) It was this conflict that changed the lives of all the characters. This was Amir’s, “final opportunity to decide who [he] was going to be.” (Hosseini, 82) As a result, He spent his adolescence ‘running’ away from his mistakes, because everywhere he looked “Kabul had become a city of ghosts…A city of harelipped ghosts.” (Hosseini, 144) To Amir, Hassan was haunting his memories. Amir couldn’t stand it so Baba and Amir moved to America. “For [Amir], America was a place to bury [his] memories.” (Hosseini, 136) In contrast to Kogawa’s novel, Amir’s actions resulted to the change of his life and the lives of people around him. Rahim Khan, a family friend, calls Amir in his adulthood asking him to come to Pakistan. Rahim Khan urges Amir, “There is a way to be good again.” (Hosseini, 2)

I am ashamed for the lies we told you all those years. You were right to be angry in Peshawar. You had a right to know. So did Hassan. I know it doesn’t absolve anything, but the Kabul we lived in in those days was a strange world, one in which some things mattered more than the truth. (301)

One character who sees the change of his home country before and after is Amir. While Amir and Hassan were in the younger years of their childhood, they were able to sit outside of the house, eating dried mulberries and walnuts, laughing, giggling. Amir remembers the smell of lamb kabobs throughout the streets. Afghanistan was a beautiful place where people wanted to be. When Amir leaves for America, he doesn’t see much of the disintegrating Afghanistan other

He administers his criticism towards “terrorists,” the “European school,” the “Islamic school,” the “Asian school,” and the “political movement called multiculturalism”(Dinesh,

In the novel, Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the protagonist, Amir, is torn between two truths as he lived associated with different kinds of religious groups in Afghan society: Pashtuns and Hazaras. Each identity played a unique part in Amir’s life. Whether they had a positive or negative effect, both changed his values and beliefs. Individuals also shaped Amir’s character. Baba, Assef, and Hassan were major influences upon Amir’s growth throughout the book; their differences shaped Amir into the man he later became as all three represented a different side of Afghan society.

her far from herself. In one line in the poem she brings us starkly into the world of a

Amir had settled in America and had cut off all connections of himself with Afghanistan. The physical journey helps Amir to establish his identity. Amir’s confrontation

Throughout Mosin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” there is a continual undercurrent of tension, with the main point of focus centred on Changez’s shifting identity. This being said, Changez is not the sole focus of the framed novel, with a mix of character’s actions and emotions building up the rise in tension. As the novel is told to us through the words of Changez, he is obviously considered to be the protagonist; the source of a large part of the angst which resonates from the text. Another prominent character in the novel, Erika, pulls away from the complete focus on Changez, adding in on another of the main sources of