Comparisons

Read the extract and think about the question - forget about the reluctant fundamentalist


Attitudes to the situation (linked to the question)

• The narrator
• Characters
• The Writer

Support it with evidence


The Extract


Yanko

• Doesn't conform
• Has to prove himself to be accepted
• Threatens violence
• Still not accepted regardless
• Difference in cultural makes acceptance hard
• Indifferent
• Willingness to fight
• Takes new culture and marriage seriously

Amy

• Keen
• Doesn't care what people say
• Attraction and temptation of the exotic

Narrator

• Empathises Yanko's foreignness

Villagers

• He can't do anything right
• Dislike not based on anything sound
• Prejudiced, disapproving
• Fear, uncertainty

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

• Erica attracted by his foreignness
• Changez stays true to foreignness in courtship
• Wears formal dress when meeting parents - clash of culture - shows seriousness towards relationship
• Erica Fascinated by foreignness - not necessarily wanting a relationship
• Attracted to - politeness, foreignness (writing)
• Don't end up together - Chris is in the way - Erica never loved him?
• Erica never loved him - sex can't do it - has to abandon cultural identity  - only way is pretend to be chris
• Violence and racism after 9/11 - imagine if with white woman would be worse
• Dad makes assuptions

End of each paragraph bring in extract - 2 sentences