What is the theme of The Reluctant Fundamentalist?
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is about the twisted, self-righteous, simplistic, and self-serving political path that Changez adopts. He isn’t a “reluctant” fundamentalist. Rather, he is a fairly deliberate and self-deluding one. Changez feels betrayed by America in the aftermath of 9/11.
What is Underwood Samson in The Reluctant Fundamentalist?
Underwood Samson is a personification of the USA. The company’s motto is ‘Focus on the Fundamentals’ and Changez becomes ‘an expert business Fundamentalist’ – ‘a secular fundamentalist’.
What is Changez’s American Dream?
The American dream to foreigners is equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work. In the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, the protagonist Changez is an intelligent Pakistani Muslim man who works hard to reach the American Dream.
Is The Reluctant Fundamentalist a postcolonial novel?
Changez the protagonist of the novel ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ depicted as post-colonial subject represents the state of the Muslims, colonized by Europeans. In America, his way of living represents him hybrid who leaving his native culture adopts another one.
Who are the Janissaries in The Reluctant Fundamentalist?
The Janissaries were the chosen body of the Ottoman sultan, young Christians (but later also Muslims) who were torn from their families and sent to Istanbul to serve the emperor.
What happens at the end of the Reluctant?
But the novel ends without revealing what was in his pocket, leaving the reader to wonder if the stranger was a CIA agent, possibly there to kill Changez, or if Changez, in collusion with the waiter from the cafe, had planned all along to do harm to the American.
Who is the narrator of The Reluctant Fundamentalist?
Changez
A third of the way through Mohsin Hamid’s second novel, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” the narrator, a young Pakistani man named Changez, tells an American how he first learned of the destruction of the World Trade Center.
How is Changez an unreliable narrator?
Changez is an unreliable narrator because of what he says at the start. He says to the American that he is a “lover of America” then he contradicts this statement with his review of events after 9/11 and when he says that he is an activist AGAINST America. He is also unreliable as he doesn’t let anyone else talk.