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A review by jasnahwit94
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
4.0
I started this book this morning than i had a class and was done by 11. I have not read a books so fast in a very longtime. Only 3 hours. Reluctant fundamentalist is very simply written to convey a very difficult time.
This book has two things; a Pakistani trying to identify himself, his stance and his identity when everything he is and where he comes from is snubbed and looked down upon. This book is not much of a religious struggle than it is a struggle of a man whose fundamentals are changing. Like many Pakistani's being a Muslim is something that we are born not exactly very concerned about to live up to, Changez is like that, someone with dreams, wit, respect for hierarchy, but his morals religiously speaking would more than questionable. Than something catastrophic happens and he tries to keep himself aloof from it. That proves to be impossible because of the paranoia, because the general change of stance of masses towards those who were identified to be from the Asia. The woman in his life turned out to be as unstable as everything else, she like his american dream soon breaks.
This book does not have a plot instead it is a dairy of few months of young graduate and his life in the part of world which would soon be influencing his part of the world more strongly than ever before.
Many wont agree, that is the thing about being Americanized it is hard to find faults in that system. Some would agree with the idea of the book. But in my opinion, it is story that every nation has their own pride, Americans are not the only ones. They have a history too, an identity which in west might not be much, but is a great source of pride for these in this part of world. like Changez in many places talks of the glorious past, he refers it as "our" achievements. That is the clash Americans denouncing the world he is from, his pride.
This book has two things; a Pakistani trying to identify himself, his stance and his identity when everything he is and where he comes from is snubbed and looked down upon. This book is not much of a religious struggle than it is a struggle of a man whose fundamentals are changing. Like many Pakistani's being a Muslim is something that we are born not exactly very concerned about to live up to, Changez is like that, someone with dreams, wit, respect for hierarchy, but his morals religiously speaking would more than questionable. Than something catastrophic happens and he tries to keep himself aloof from it. That proves to be impossible because of the paranoia, because the general change of stance of masses towards those who were identified to be from the Asia. The woman in his life turned out to be as unstable as everything else, she like his american dream soon breaks.
This book does not have a plot instead it is a dairy of few months of young graduate and his life in the part of world which would soon be influencing his part of the world more strongly than ever before.
Many wont agree, that is the thing about being Americanized it is hard to find faults in that system. Some would agree with the idea of the book. But in my opinion, it is story that every nation has their own pride, Americans are not the only ones. They have a history too, an identity which in west might not be much, but is a great source of pride for these in this part of world. like Changez in many places talks of the glorious past, he refers it as "our" achievements. That is the clash Americans denouncing the world he is from, his pride.