Mohsin Hamid

Changez, the narrator of The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid was overall relatively reliable when telling the story of his life to a stranger he had met in a cafe. However there are certain points in which his truths or missing details are more prevalent. Often this lack of detail correlated with certain points in his life. One would think that lack of detail would change the purposes of the novel, but Hamid was able to drive his theme of exposing american judgemental views towards…

While the cultural narrative divides refugees from nativists and finds reasons to bar refugees from entry to countries, Mohsin Hamid not only reveals the refugee perspective, but also questions the idea of nativism itself as a legitimate reason for division. While Exit West follows the story of Nadia and Saeed, it also includes the many other refugees that the couple run into, and the doors present opportunities not only for refugees fleeing war and persecution, but also for everyday people that…

Bloom argues that this influence could be gained consciously or unconsciously, and in our case of Hamid, he is conscious of his influence by Conrad because of the similarity in situation between Conrad and Hamid. Joseph Conrad is a polish lived in England, and so Hamid is a Pakistani lived in America. Conrad personally visited the Congo before writing his novel and he wrote about a place he knows, also, Hamid has been to America and studied in Princeton before writing his novel. Both novels…

Mohsin Hamid’s use of dramatic monologue in the form of a one-sided conversation creates an opportunity for Changez, who can be depicted as a representation of the Muslim population, to narrate another side of the story resulting from the 9/11 tragedy. By not incorporating his interlocutor’s voice–mirroring the reader–the American voice, which previously dominated the dialogue in media, is forced to listen. Changez’s experiences as a Muslim after the pivotal attacks on the American soil brings…

Therefore, analyzing How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, written by Mohsin Hamid, will help potential readers to consider reading it. In the novel, the protagonist, referred to as “you,” is born into a poor family and becomes rich with a bottled water business. Throughout the novel, the narrator traces the protagonist’s life and explains what happens to him as he grows from a young boy to an old man. In the novel, Hamid uses many literary devices that enhance his novel, even though they…

personifying this stereotypical norm as the government in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid we can bring a new understanding to the book's ending which leaves many questions unanswered and provokes the reader to speculate about the ending because the purpose of certain characters and their intentions aren’t mentioned. Changez and the stranger are…

those who have no chance to represent themselves run a greater risk of being treated as less than human, regarded as less than human, or indeed, not regarded at all” (141). Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, use the lives of their protagonists to exemplify the macro-level institutionalized marginalization of, as well as the individual micro-level prejudice and discrimination against, minority groups. By communicating the experience and impact…

The story of Charlie Marlow, the narrator in Heart of Darkness, is recounted to four companions by Marlow himself, while aboard a boat docked on the River Thames in England, The tale tells of how Marlow acquired a position at an ivory trading company in the Congo, his journey from England to his new post, and the horror he experienced at the sight of the conditions of the black slaves. During his trip, he repeatedly hears about a man named Kurtz who plays a central role in the ivory business.…

In both Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the characters were put in a situation where they were exposed to a different setting than where they came from and it interfered with their identity. Changez had trouble finding aspects from his home, Pakistan to keep with him in his new country, America. The sisters struggled to balance characteristics from Dominican Republic and America because of the huge difference in the…

the responsibility to uphold the human rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness through historical understanding and empathy as described in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow as well as self-reflection that inspires personal change in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist to challenge the American society to achieve its values of social equality. While this argument specifically focuses on American values and policy issues, the responsibility to self-reflect and practice…