Essays on The Reluctant Fundamentalist

We (as readers) are given a fair glimpse into the narrator’s views of himself, at least as far as anyone is capable of articulating. Changez is an extremely bright individual and he takes pride in this fact as evidenced by his proclamation of how high...

“The term “personal identity” means different things to different people. Psychologists use it to refer to a person’s self-image — to one’s beliefs about the sort of person one is and how one differs from others.” (Olson). Identity relates to self, person, individual: how you...

Rahim Khan’s statement “there is a way to be good again”, signals the beginning of Amir’s journey for redemption in The Kite Runner. It can be argued that The Reluctant Fundamentalist is also a novel about redemption with Changez seeking redemption for pursuing the American...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsen Hamid that was published in 2007. This novel tells about the tragedy of 9/11, the collapse of the twin towers in the United States as a result of the Al-Qaeda attack that grew the Islamic phobia at...

The study explains the position of Muslims and Muslim countries in the judgment of Americans after 9/11 incident. It compares the situation of protagonist of the novel, Changez, with the colonized nation. The hybrid identity is signposted through the protagonist as a restoration method of...

Mohsin Hamid’s book The Reluctant Fundamentalist is about Changez an international student who comes to America to achieve higher education at Princeton. After graduation, he gets a well-paying job at a high-end firm in New York. Changez is living the quintessential American dream of creating...

Adjectives is the word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing...