The Reluctant Fundamentalist

He represents imagination; he is always outside and has no home. His eyes mist over as he says that the madrasa is to be his home. The director, through Rokon’s character, tries to show the audiences his own resentment against the then Islamic fundamentalist family and Islamic education system. Both Rokon and Anu are forced to study in madrasa where Anu could not speak out, but Rokon does. They first bond over lunch when Rokon gives his fish to Anu. The other boys at the madrasa have fun at the…

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…

Issues Relating to Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement Law enforcement officers often use the term profiling, which refers to a practice of describing individual behavior (positive or negative) and/or certain personal characteristics. At some point in time, the term profiling has evolved from its original specific intent and shifted from an individual’s actions to the individual’s race, ethnicity or national origin of an individual. Many individuals have seen law enforcement officers from…

Videos and social media posts pour out of East Aleppo, and the world weeps. For the seven-year-old girl facing her death, for the man seeking prayers as a bomb explodes in the distance, for the activist pleading, “Save Aleppo. Save humanity.” The aerial footage of the city is apocalyptic, but it is the images of individuals grasping for hope as they face death that has truly captured and horrified the masses. We have seen this before: the figures leaping from the World Trade Center, the story of…

‘Burger’ is a word used by Americans to describe a beef or chicken patty stuffed between two buns and cheese. However, in Pakistan it is used to describe someone who wants to be, or is, ‘westernized.’ Westernized here refers to someone who can fluently speak English, goes to a private school, is ‘modern’ and wears jeans. On the other hand is the ‘Bun Kebab’(local food) who can be defined as someone who attends a local school or university with other Bun Kebabs, knows more Urdu than English, may…

The portrayal of Iran and Islam as male dominant country and religion further the stereotypes attached with Iran by the west i.e. primitive, barbaric, fundamentalist, dirty, despotic, orthodox and authoritative. This memoir is highly influenced by the Islamic revolution’s ideologies and Iraq-Iran war. Betty Mahmoody being an American woman who was independent, self reliant, had liberty and freedom to not…

Sudanese deaths, with British deaths totaling a. 48.* b. 480. c. 1,480. d. 4,480. e. 44,800. 16. The system of administering and exploiting the colonies for the benefit of the home country is a. benevolent neglect. b. splendid isolation. c. reluctant imperialism. d. colonialism.* e. mercantilism. 17. Colonies that were allowed to maintain their own traditional governments with European advisers were called a. protectorates.* b. most-favored nations. c. mandate territories. d.…