The Reluctant Fundamentalist Impressions

later study for a few pages, it give earmed most as if the main character of the book, Changez, implicates the commentator (us) as the person who he is talking to, and I judgement that was a singular aspect of this book, un exchangeable homophiley opposite books. The Ameri whoremaster man that Changez is actu al championy verbalize to, I thought it was precise unconnected how he was wearing a to the full suit, peculiarly in a fleck like Lahore where the weather is super humid and hot.Throughout the reading, I gear up it level stranger how the American is so overstrung and cautious, sticking his hand into his coat carrier bag as if he is going to biff out a natural gas, when approached by the waiter and server of the abode him and Changez are at. though the American man is rattling singular when reaching his hand into his pocket, I think Changez is playing dumb by axiom things like there is no charter to pay the waiter before the meal, and I think that Ch angez can read the American like a book.It is very provable that the American has any(prenominal) sort of electric ray under his coat, and I k in a flashadays that Changez sureizes that as swell up. When Changez began recounting his experiences with his interview with underbrush Samson, I thought right a focussing that Changez would non get the job as he lost his temper when the interviewer Jim moolahed probing into his stinting status and flavor back in Pakistan. Instead, I was affect when Jim was actu every(prenominal)y strike with Changezs temper, and revealed that he withal was a Princeton alumnus and the commencement ceremony person in his family to attend college as well.Nearing the end of the interview, I was surprised once again how Changez could predict the value and profits right on the spot of the imaginary order that Jim told him to value. later on reading more or less erica, I would study entrap it highly clunky if I were Changez, learning that er icas number one true fuck was now deceased. For more or less reason, I am non surprised after reading that Changez had ranked first in his Class. I was impressed that Jims house reminded Changez of The heavy(p) Gatsby, because in my opinion, from what I pictured after reading The Great Gatsby, the house must had been amazing. Pages 51-100) I derive that Changez is attracted to true heath and would most seeming non mind getting with her, yet I still find it awkward when reading (I inhabit for a fact that I would intuitive feeling awkward if I was attracted to a woman that do itd a man who had recently died of lung cancer). If I was Changez, I would book matte up very out of place when erica explained that the detailed sk etcetera of the island at heart an island picture, was a picture her late boyfriend, Chris, had drawn.I comprise it amusing when Changez went against Muslim traditions and authorized wine from Ericas become at dinner, and when the American asserts that drinking is a sin according to Islam, I found it funny when Changez replied with so, for that matter, is coveting thy neighbors wife. I was impressed when Changez held his own after Ericas father bashed Pakistan about its crumbling economy, tyrannical government, how the elites had raped that place well and good, and about its religious fundamentalists. I would apply snapped if almostone disrespected my country like that.At this point, I look forward to what Changez says when the American reaches his hand into his coat. If I was the American, I would have noniced by now that Changez is non dumb enough not to realize that there is a gun under the coat, however I cipher he is also playing on as well. When Changez reminisces about flying boozees, I couldnt picture myself in a pleasant state at only. Ive seen what flying foxes look like, and they are passing large for a bat. They average at about 3-4 feet tall, and have heads that resemble foxes.If I were to see a flyi ng fox in person, I would immediately idle or run for my life. I found it very strange after I read how Changez smiled at the site of the gentlemans gentleman Trade Center towers collapsing. I mute wherefore the American got angry of course, save when found it someone peculiar that Changez was dexterous and took pleasure in seeing the American military bombing Iraq. I felt a bit doleful for Changez when he had to be stripped searched at the airport, and how the other(a) passengers on the scan were unsettled at the sight of him sitting on the plane with them. afterward reading how Changez and Erica in all likelihood had the most awkward experience in bed ever so in hi story, I found it even weird how Changez asked Erica to tell him what it was like to make beloved to Chris even if it did seem to put her at ease. I would have felt extremely uncomfortable, especially since Erica cried as well. At this point, I began to realize that Changez is in some sort of denial. His n ewfound lifestyle, love, and work all seem too good to be true in my opinion (except the love of course, cosmos Erica).After reading how Changez was scared at the images of his neighbor country being invaded and attacked, and how he drank himself to sleep, I knew he reference to crack. (Pages 101-150) When Changez told Erica to pretend that he was Chris, I felt that was probably the strangest, and most awkward thing I have ever read. How Changez felt it to be violent, as if Ericas vagina was a wound and he kept imagining he smelled blood, all of it was very gross, and I agree with the American that it also disgusted me.After reading this, I lost respect for Changez now. Although he is extremely smart, successful, attends Princeton, etc. , I would feel extremely ashamed and disgraced if I was him. I dont understand how Changez did not realize that Erica submits space. After Ericas mother told him She doesnt need a boyfriend. She needs a friend I thought maybe ultimately Change z would get the message and yield Erica alone. After reading how Changez was verbally harassed in the parking draw play by a man, I around felt his anger/pain.When the man in the parking lot said screwing Arab, which ironically he is not, I understood what he was going through because I have been through similar experiences in my life. Instead of being called Vietnamese, which is what I am, because I am Asian, I have been called Chinese, chink, etc. , so I bang what Changez went though. though it does not effect my any longer, I understand Changezs emotions because it is most likely the first while he has experient ethnic prejudice.When the food arrives and the American asks about the utensils, it make me smile when Changez replied with allow me to counsel that the time has now come for us to dirty our hands. We have, after all, spent some hours in each others company already surely you can no longer feel the need to hold back. There is great enjoyment to be in touching one s prey I want the last displaceence for some reason. I understand that Changez continued to grow his face fungus to be different from the other Americans he works with, just that only do him more susceptible to prejudice.Personally if I was him, I would have shaved it off, especially due to the fact that it could impact my job. When Changez goes to jaw Erica at the hospital and is greeted by the care for, I would have felt very unsettled after hearing the nurse tell him that he was what made things harder for Erica by being the most real thing she knew, disturbing her own realism of her imagination which she felt was more vibrant and tolerable than the real world.Now, I know for a fact that Changez knows that something will drop dead soon with the American when he encourages him to refined sugar his tongue before undertaking the bloodiest of tasks. in like manner when Changez notices that the American has a come to the fore in his shirt where an armpit holster would be an d assumes that the bulge is a travel wallet, it is obvious that Changez knows what the American is really there for. I know that Changez has a successful job, is making a good salary, but when Juan-Bautista asks him Does it trouble you to make your living by disrupting the lives of others? It would have made me feel bad about myself. By this point I know that Underwood Samson is not only a company that values other businesses, but also takes then over, causing many a(prenominal) to lose their jobs.Personally, I would not feel comfortable working for a company that destroys others lives. (Pages 151-End) I was not surprised when Changez left Underwood and Samson, disrespect his loyalty to Jim, the need for money, and his visas dependence on his job. I found it sad that out of all of Changezs colleagues, only Wainwright said goodbye. I felt a bit sad after reading that Erica had perpetrate suicide. Instead of living through all of her depression, sadness, distraught, I suppose taki ng her life to end it all was her only solution.I was in someway glad that Changez finally came to terms with the fact that, whatever happened to Erica, she had chosen not to be part of his story. I felt bad for Changez his only love was not in love with him, and now had committed suicide. Up to this point, I have finally realized that the old Changez, emotional about and loving America, is no more. Instead, I feel that Changez is now angry at America, and by teaching/convincing students to decouple from America and to take part in the movement towards Pakistani international independence, is his way of combating America.As the American and Changez walked faster and faster towards the hotel, I knew that something was about to happen. I thought at first that the other throng on the street were going to start firing guns at any moment, but I was wrong. It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all underground assassins. After finishing the book, I conceive that that quote somehow relates to the American, because I see the American as an agent sent to murder Changez. Though the end of the story does not say if anyone was killed, I look at that Changez was indeed murdered, and he knew that whole time as he was talking to the American, that he was going to be murdered that night. What I dont understand is why the American would sit hours upon hours with Changez, listening to his stories and adequate acquainted with him, only to delay himself in his task to murder him.