The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“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”

term usually associated with religious fanaticism. Usually, this is what comes to mind when there is mention of a fundamentalist. However, in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist starring the protagonist Changez, a Pakistani Princetonian who is a top-ranked employee at a prestigious New York valuation firm, turns out not to be an Islamic fundamentalist, but a reluctant fundamentalist of US Capitalism. Hamid challenges readers to reevaluate their preconceived notions and prejudices of people different

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an eye-opening novel by the Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. This first person written novel will draw you in from the very beginning. The book opens in a cafe in Lahore, Changez, the main character's hometown. In this cafe is where Changez approaches a western man, who is obviously a foreigner. Changez seems to be very comfortable with the stranger right from the very beginning. However, on the other hand the stranger is understandably quite anxious during their conversation

In, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, written by Mohsin Hamid, the main character, Changez seems to be an unreliable source. Throughout the novel, there is a dinner that Changez is having with an American, who seems to be uneasy the entire meal. Changez tells this American about all his many memories of his life, both good and bad. Hamid choose to write this novel from only Changez’s point of view so the audience is never told what the other end of the conversation is and only sees it through Changez’s

attack, 2,753 lives were taken and America was left with the horror. Through a change of identity, extreme cautiousness, and the difficulty to be loved by Changez, Erica is a clear personification of America in Changez’s eyes. Throughout The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Erica personifies America by representing greatness and security in Changez’s life. As the novel progresses after 9/11, they both grow to represent uncertainties in his life instead, due to traumatic events. One of the characteristics Erica

Lover or Foe In The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid, The main character Changez experiences life both as an American and as a Pakistani. The setting take place in a restaurant in Lahore and Changez is talking to a stranger to our knowledge about his endeavors in America. Changez is in America, and finds himself becoming more and more fond of the American lifestyle and even meets a girl named Erica who he first thinks is the love of his life. Fast forwarding into the future Changez’s job

How does Mohsin Hamid use ominous details and imagery to enhance the atmosphere and create suspense in The Reluctant Fundamentalist? 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

globalization presented in Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Culture of Liberty,” and Kanishka Chowdhury’s Globalization and the ideologies of Postnationalism and Hybridity.” Accordingly, Rana Dasgupta’s “The House of the Frankfurt Mapmaker” and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Moshin Hamid, critically challenge the cosmopolitan outlook as questionable fiction. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that everyone belongs to a worldwide community, that there is a hybridization amongst people that serves as a uniting factor

basis of social classes. Through history, the wealthy have always appeared to end up on top. They always seem to get the upper hand. As a consequence, the upper class often have a certain air of arrogance and/or ignorance. In the novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid, the authors address this idea. Both Hamid and Kincaid utilize interactions between wealthy Americans and immigrants to demonstrate how wealthy American’s arrogance or ignorance alienates non-Americans

It is Changez’s shifting identity that creates the main interest and tension in the novel. Do you agree? 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