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Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Nr.19876, 2003 Philipp Reclam jun. Group: F. Carbonera M.Ferrigno Class: 5ALS School year: 2014-15. AIMS:. Students should be aware of the importance of: Knowledge and skills related to intercultural dialogue;

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Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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  1. Mohsin HamidThe ReluctantFundamentalist Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Nr.19876, 2003Philipp Reclam jun. Group: F. Carbonera M.Ferrigno Class: 5ALS School year: 2014-15

  2. AIMS: Students should be aware of the importance of: • Knowledge and skills related to intercultural dialogue; • Language awareness and learning awareness; • Project skills and project work in a multilingual and intercultural dimension ; • Documentation in cultural exchange; • Effective communication in a multilingual context; • Semantic research in language learning; • Cultural features and stereotypes; • The way language makes meaning with respect of the previous point.

  3. OBJECTIVE: At the end of the project work students should be able to: • Discuss the principle of the novel: MohsinHamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Nr. 19876, 2013. Philipp Reclam jun. GmbH & co. KG, Stuttgart); • Single out the main Functions of each chapter with reference to message; • Find out key words and expressions used to convey different linguistic and cultural perspectives; • Carry out relevant textual analysis with reference to : • Fiction structural elements( title, layout, denotation, setting, narrative strategy) • Language’s use • Draw personal conclusions and argumentations supported by textual reference; • Relationship signifier-signified.

  4. Chapter 1 Functionss: • Introduction of the main character Changez and the American interlocutor; • Description of the setting: Pakistan (Lahore: OldAnarkali), USA (Princeton) ; • Presentation of the narrative technique. MainPoints: Changez: • tells about his life from his participation to university in Princeton; • declares he is a lover of America; • is a brilliant student ; • gets a prestigious valuation company-Underwood Samson. Key words: mission, fundamentalism, dream, skills, business.

  5. Chapter 2 Functions: • Introduction of main female character Erica, who is metaphor for America; • Introduction of Erica’s ex boyfriend, Chris; • To focus on Changez’s (Pakistan’s) relationship with women . Main Points: It is the beginning of the relationship between Changez and Erica: • he meet Erica in Greece; • Erica is still loving Chris, who died for cancer. Key word: different , traditional, inappropriate, improper, regal, tiara, family, home, intimacy.

  6. Chapter 3 Functions: • To develop Changez’s relationship with America; • Comparison between Lahore and New York's buildings and urban structure; • Similarities and difference between American and Pakistan. MainPoints: • Changez Loves his job in Underwood Samson & Comp: • it is in a meritocracy system • Changez recognizes once Pakistan was at the forefront of modernity • he feels a sense of shame and resentment that it is now poor. Key word: Combination predator / prey prey : unfamiliar, uncertain, foreign, the sense of being watched, being watchful, feeling out of place”. predator :hierarchy, superiority, power, warrior.

  7. Chapter 4 Functions: • To show different cultures meeting: Eastern VS Western ; • To show different social classes meeting: upper VS lower class ; • To underline fundamentalism ; • To highlight the feeling of nostalgia. Main Points: • Erica and Changez explore Manhattan • they visit her parents’: • live in a penthouse apartment • Erica’s father explains his stereotypical view of Pakistan • Erica describes traumatic effect of Chris’s death on her. Key words: Nostalgia, market fundamentalism, stereotypical, open-mindedness, cosmopolitan.

  8. Chapter 5 Functions: World Trade Center attack: • Discrimination • Identity: American VS Pakistani • Social classes meeting: upper VS lower classes • Globalism Main Points: • Changez goes to Philippines for valuation job of music company. • America’s empire is richer than Pakistan • Filipino workers ‘look up’ to rich young Americans and starts to assume the same attitude and language • World Trade Centre collapses ,Changez sees this on TV and ‘smiles’. Key words: Nostalgia, longing, first class, privileges, expensive foreign, victims, symbolism.

  9. Chapter 6 • Functions: • To introduce the theme of the mortality and procreation; • To introduce the theme of patriotism; • To underline the identity of Changez. Main points: • He sees Erica and she looks ‘older’ • attempt at love making fails : • she can’t get wet’ and told him more about Chris. Key word: Patriotimsjasmine, mourning.

  10. Chapter 7 Functions: • To focus on the Fundamentals; • To introduce Jim’s identity; • To express political Fundamentalism. Main Points: • America bombards the Afghanistan • Afghanistan is friends and neighbor of Pakistan • Changez continues to focus on work : • he is encouraged to ‘focus on the fundamentals’ Key word: Fundamentals, rage, change, vanish.

  11. Chapter 8 Functions: • To introduce the theme about impermanence and mortality; • To introduce the economic fundamentalism; • To introduce the theme about racism and racial profiling. Main Points: • Changez visits Erica • Erica’s mother tells him she didn’t need a boyfriend. • Underwood Samson continued to power forward in pursuit of business • his car is attacked by ‘Arab’ haters and Changez is aggressive in his response. Key word: Racism, economic fundamentalism.

  12. Chapter 9 Functions: • To introduce the theme of conflicted identity; • To resume the theme about the political fundamentalism. Main Points: • Changez has changed: • he is an unsympathetic American • He misses the beauty of his family house and homeland: • He fells powerless. • He does not shave his beard off for return a form of protest or identity • Erica is at a clinic on the Hudson. Key word: Identity , nostalgia, fundamentalism, regret.

  13. Chapter 10 Functions: • To show deep interior struggle Changez feels; • To show equality way VS capitalism; • Definitive break with American thinking; • To demonstrate the real meaning of fundamentalism. Main Points: • He meet Juan Bautista who explains the concepts about equality and art • Changez couldn’t concentrate on the job, worried about Pakistan • he give up and is sent back to New York. Key words: Failure, return capitalism, equality, foreigner, powerless.

  14. Chapter 11 Functions: • Tohighlightclimax of Changez’s interiority :he abandoned his job and he loses Erica (suicide) ; • To show Changez’s reluctance of American ideals and financial fundamentals; • To reflect about American foreign policy. Main Points: • He thinks about America’s foreign policy and critiqued of US activities and attitudes • he visits Erica at clinic but she is dead (suicide) Key words: Awareness, dead, fundamentalism, foreign policy

  15. Chapter 12 Functions: • To explain Changez’s return; • Slowly return from the narration to the present; • To show Changez as an opposer of America . Main Points: • Changez leaves America and returns to Pakistan • he works as a university lecturer • he seems to be increasingly opposed to American actions . Key words: Royal Mosque, multinational corporations, Lahore, left, nostalgia, war, terrorism.

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