The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a famous novel for its devastating and painfully honest depiction of identity, betrayal, deception, and atonement. The narrative portrays the journey of a boy escaping from his haunted childhood while torturing himself with his own contrition. These two concepts of identity and redemption play a vital role in creating a string that binds the characters together. As a reader of The Kite Runner, one embarks on a journey that leads through the…...

New York City, the most populated city in New York and the United States with a population of 17, 990, 455, lies at the end of the Hudson River on the southernmost tip of the state New York. New York City is divided into five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. The city's physical setting is a complex assortment of lands and islands. The only borough of the city that is on the mainland of New York…...

"I had actually changed; I was looking about me with the eyes of an immigrant." How does Changez alter throughout the novel? The Unwilling Fundamentalist discovers two stopped working love affairs, one with a person and the other with a country. Changez - the dazzling kid from Lahore, who was raised in a utopian background with a caring household yet who dealt with monetary problem, handles to get into Princeton with a generous scholarship, and bags one of the most…...

Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” focuses on the consequences of the “9/11” attack in America on individuals and society as a whole. The main character, Changez, changes significantly as the story unfolds. At the beginning, he is depicted as a ‘lover’ of America and is determined to become wealthy, even though he is not entirely at ease. After the destruction of the World Trade Centre and the subsequent racist assaults, his attitude changes dramatically and he becomes embittered and disillusioned.…...

Identity is not something fixed once and for all, but rather in a state of flux. This aspect is well illustrated in The Reluctant Fundamentalist as the character of Changez (whose very name implies change) takes on different identities throughout the novel, rather than simply losing or acquiring a given one. He first becomes the quintessentially-American success immigrant story, believing in the corporate ethos of meritocracy, only to reject this condition and adopt Islamic fundamentalism. When Erica is unable to…...

Mohsin Hamid's The Hesitant Fundamentalist follows the journey of a young Pakistani man and his journey after transferring to America in search of the American dream. Changez remains in a minority group when relocating to America and is a clear outsider however he is accepted into American meritocracy and offered the chance to become 'an effective American'. Though he tries to fit into what he believes an effective American needs to be, through changing his identity according to the standards…...