The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Cards (42)

  • Mohsin Hamid attended ____ ____ and graduated in ____, with the ____ _____?
    Princeton University, 1993, highest honour
  • Mohsin Hamid went to attend ____ ___ _____ and graduated in 1997?
    Harvard Law School
  • Hamid began working for _____ and Company in New York as a ____ ______?
    Mckinsey, management consultant
  • this novel, ____ _____ book, was seen as the ___ ____ _____ to 9/11?
    Hamid's second, definitive literary response
  • Hamid is using Changez as a ______ for his own _______?
    mouthpiece, experiences
  • a fundamentalist is someone who ____ in traditional forms of a _____, or believes that what is written in a ___ ____, such as the ____ ____, is completely _____?
    believes, religion, holy book, Christian bible, true
  • Changez is a common _____ name it means ____ ___ _____?
    Afghanistan, changing and growth
  • the Underwood Samson initials are __ for the United _____ of ______, representing _____ _____ and _____ relationship with America?
    US, States, America, Changez' close, devoted
  • 'invited into the ranks of ______'?
    meritocracy
  • TRF is a good example of a ______?
    bildungsroman
  • Changez moved to america because of the power of a _____?
    dream
  • Changez faced ____ ______ because of where he came from - racial _____?
    micro agressions, violence
  • evidence of his _____into America is when he uses ___ american terms?
    assimilation, key
  • Changez undergoes an ______ ____ _______?
    Underwood Samson interview
  • Changez does have relations with ____ _____?
    fellow immigrants
  • Changez does have relationships with ______?
    whiteness
  • a symbol is a ____ _____ of an object ?
    deeper meaning
  • a motif is a ____ ___ ____, written or structural ______?
    constantly repeated visual, device
  • Verbal irony is what is ___ but not what is ______?
    said, meant
  • a framed narrative is a _____ within a ______?
    story, story
  • The chapter ____and ____ don't have any ___ _____ or ______, they are ____, this keeps us ___ and _____ on Changez?
    beginnings, endings, specific, end , beginning, random, guessing, relying
  • what effect does the back and forth time movement have on the narrative?
    keeps the reader on their feet and feeling uneasy
  • Changez has an often ___ ____ with the American, this _____ the powerfullness of the _____, and shows us that Changez is the one _____ the narrative?
    sarcastic tone, undermines, American, controlling
  • Chnagez had ____ ____ of New York and _____?
    blended descriptions, Lahore
  • ' I thought of ____ as a nation that looked _____, for the first time, I was _____ by it's _____ to ___ ____'?
    America, forwarn, shocked, determination, look back
  • 'Why did part of me desire to see ____ ____?

    America Harmed
  • 'Princeton made _____ possible for me'?
    everything
  • Changez _____ at 9/11?
    smiled
  • The motherland was described as ____ and _____?
    dazzling, gold
  • 'pressed his face _____ ____ to mine'?
    alarmingly close
  • 'the cold metal of it's ____ rested ____ in my hands... ____ it with sufficient _____ to shatter the bones of his _____'?
    shaft, hungrily, wielding, violence, skull
  • 'this encounter had an _____ that was for me _____?
    intensity, unprecedented
  • in the ____ ____ Erica?
    foreground shimmered
  • ' an elderly _____, who adopted a ___ ____ _____'?
    doorman, coldly disapproving expression
  • 'her happiness, _____ me as well'?
    infected
  • Reverse culture shock happens to ____upon returning home at the end of _____, he suffers from ____ and ____ distress upon his return after a number of ____ in America?
    Changez, 2001, emotional, psychological, years
  • ' Despite the ____ we had given to _____ in Afghanistan, America would not ____ at our ____'?
    assistance, America, fight, side
  • Changez recognises the ____ in development between Lahore and the USA, and at first ____ all that America has provided him with?
    differences, appreciates
  • Changez realises that the house in ____ ___ ___, but he is the one that has _____, this causes him to consider leaving ___ ____ and is a form of ___ ____ ____?
    Pakistan hasn't changed, changed, Underwood Samson, reverse culture shock
  • Changez decided to ___ ___ ___ ____?
    grow out his beard