He should be somewhat of an educated man to have accomplished being a lawyer, the 19th president of Columbia University, an IV lead University. It’s ridiculous for him to let his ethics and knowledge of presenting an introduction the correct way over feelings. Lee Bollinger presented all of the negative things about Ahmadinejad and quoted saying that would upset people and make them dislike him. His aim was to turn people against Ahmadinejad and persuade them to do the same as him, which is criticize pass judgment. Bollinger literally misunderstood his position as an introducer and made himself look bad.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist In the text ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid, the protagonist Changez is slowly revealed as an unreliable narrator through the progression of the framed narrative. Mohsin Hamid has written this piece as an extended monologue and used it create security within the reader and the details of the story, but then slowly shifts the whole situation and little by little continues the development of Changez being an unreliable narrator. Slowly but surely, as the novel progresses, the reader is shown the comparisons that the narrator Changez makes between cultures, the views that he has and racial prejudice he develops towards Americans when talking to the unnamed American tourist. It is also gradually revealed to the reader that Changez has forgotten many details of his story when recounting it, also exaggerating parts and giving his views on certain things, hence making him an unreliable narrator. It is very easy to believe everything that Changez says in the beginning, because of his likeable characteristics, but the more and more one connects with the narrator, the harder it becomes to be so gullible.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Prompt: In what ways does Hamid use symbolism and setting to explore the main themes of the novel? ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid is a dramatic monologue in which Changez, a Pakistani man recounts the tale of his brief and torrid love affair with America to an anonymous American whose responses can only be heard through Changez’ verbalized perceptions. The novel revolves around Changez’s changing identity as he struggles with his fluctuating allegiances to America and Pakistan during the aftermath of the terrorist bombings on September 11, 2001. Hamid uses setting as a tool to demonstrate the different stages in Changez’s personal development and discovery of his own identity. He also created a symbolic connection between Erica, Changez’s love interest and America, partnered with his purposeful use of setting in order to demonstrate the destructive nature of nostalgia.
Rumors of FBI agents raiding mosques and interrogating Muslim men reaches Changez and he feels guilty about the fact that he is enjoying a luxurious life in America as a Princeton graduate while his family is living in fear back in Pakistan. He feels bad about Muslims and his actions and he don’t feel the same affection for America the way he feels before the September 11 incident of 9/11. Changez feels intense fury towards America. Intense conflicts with strangers who call Changez a ‘fucking arab’ further plunge him into the depths of the turmoil of his emotions.Changez soon decides to go back to Lahore in Pakistan and meet his family. After experiencing the reality that his family faced, he feels guilt about having to leave them so early again.
He also developed an unlikely friendship with his roommate Charles Herman who was a literature student. Some years later Dr. Nash falls in love with one of his students, Alicia Larde and they marry. He was invited to the pentagon to decipher encrypted enemy telecommunication codes, which he did mentally, and was given an assignment by a mysterious supervisor William Parcher. Parcher informs Nash to search for patterns in magazines and newspapers in order to uncover a Soviet plot and Nash becomes increasingly obsessive about searching for the hidden patterns. He begins to believe he is being watched and followed while delivering his findings to a secret mailbox.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Character Summaries Changez * A Pakistani from Lahore, Pakistan who graduated at the top of his class at Princeton University. * Changez attended Princeton University on financial aid. * Changez worked for Underwood Samson & Company * Like at Princeton University, Changez is also at the top of his class at Underwood Samson & Company. * Changez was in love with Erica, a Princeton classmate who he met on his vacation to Greece. * Changez deliberately gets fired from Underwood Samson & Company because he fundamentally opposed to Underwood Samson’s ethos of ‘maximum efficiency.’ The American * The American is never named.
Changez initially places his identity within the context of fulfilling his personal American Dream. When Changez arrives in America he envies everything the country represents, freedom, patriotism and pride. He ‘immediately [was] a New Yorker” assimilating himself into the New York culture. Changez relinquishes his ‘Pakistaniness’ in order to fit in with his Underwood Sampson colleges ‘my Pakistaniness was invisible, cloaked by my suit, by my expense account.’ ‘Unsheathing’ his American Express card as though it was a rare commodity at the Pun Jab Deli expressing ‘I have an expense account’ is a subtle sign of the change within in Changez as he becomes more like a New Yorker, consequently though the card was not accepted. As there were aspects of Changez sacrificing himself to achieve the American dream there is also examples of his true feelings about the façade he comes to understand the American dream to be.
PROMPT: “The novel is presented in the form of one man’s monologue. Discuss the effects of the narrative technique.” The ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ has a mesmerizing monologue which interprets the point of view of a Muslim and the situations he encounters whilst in America before and after the events of 9/11. The novel takes place in a café where the Pakistani protagonist; Changez confesses to an American his experience whilst living in America. Mohsin Hamid’s (the Author) monologue allows the reader to emotionally connect with the text as it addresses the reader indirectly through the American. Hamid’s narrative technique of silencing all other characters besides Changez is a unique method which allows the reader to feel as if they are a part of the scene.
MM2021 Management and Organization Individual Paper Chosen lecture topic: Individual behaviors Topic: Why employees lie in workplace? Name of Student: Lai Chun Tat Student ID: 12073874D Class: TUT007 Introduction In 2009, a controversial and hit film was released, called “The Invention of Lying”. In this movie, the leading actor keeps lying to gain extra advantage in a world without dishonesty, as he realized that it is far more advantageous lying than not to. This film has waked public awareness about a long overlooked but worsening phenomenon: people lies at workplace, which is what I am going to discuss in this essay. Both male and female employees would lie.
The plot of The Reluctant Fundamentalist [pic]is quite simple. Changez, a young Pakistani who was educated at Princeton and worked on Wall Street, is telling his story to a nameless American he meets in a restaurant in Lahore. Changez is both fascinated and repelled by America that offered him an education and a lucrative job but at the same time, made his life intolerable in a multitude of ways. Changez's uneasy relationship with America is mirrored by his equally painful involvement with a woman called Erica. (As you can see, Hamid is quite heavy-handed with the way he names his characters.