1. In the old Anarkali bazaar of Lahore, Pakistan, Changez a bearded-man approaches a stranger that looks like an American. They both sit down to enjoy the delicacies of Pakistan, beginning with a cup of Kashmiri tea, and Changez tells the story of his previous American life. Throughout the whole evening, the waiter serving them is constantly looking at the unknown American with constant fear and anger, and the unknown American is looking around in a very peculiar manner as well. But that doesn’t stop Changez to describe his life events to the eccentric stranger. Changez, a Pakistani man living in the Gulberg area of Lahore, from a mediocre family, moves to the US to study at the Princeton University with the assistance of financial aid. He graduates with a business degree and successfully gains apprenticeship at
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On a business trip to evaluate a Manila-based music production establishment, he sees the World Trade Centre collapse before his very eyes on TV, and smiles, while saying: Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased. (on Page 55 of my 133 Page E-book). He then comes back to find all of America changed, starting from his thorough search at the airport. With the India-Pakistan standoff happening in his homeland, the nostalgia that has taken over Erica, the comparison made by Juan-Barista of Changez to janissaries, and the gaze by which his surrounding fellows look at him post 9/11(his coworkers and weird foreign strangers that swear at him when he walks to his car after duty), Changez decides he cannot live the American Dream anymore. But should he leave all this money, wealth, and such an opportunity behind just for the sake of his country? He has lived his life in New York, trying to blend in as an American, trying to remove his foreign identity, but now after all this, should he fight
On a business trip to evaluate a Manila-based music production establishment, he sees the World Trade Centre collapse before his very eyes on TV, and smiles, while saying: Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased. (on Page 55 of my 133 Page E-book). He then comes back to find all of America changed, starting from his thorough search at the airport. With the India-Pakistan standoff happening in his homeland, the nostalgia that has taken over Erica, the comparison made by Juan-Barista of Changez to janissaries, and the gaze by which his surrounding fellows look at him post 9/11(his coworkers and weird foreign strangers that swear at him when he walks to his car after duty), Changez decides he cannot live the American Dream anymore. But should he leave all this money, wealth, and such an opportunity behind just for the sake of his country? He has lived his life in New York, trying to blend in as an American, trying to remove his foreign identity, but now after all this, should he fight