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The Reluctant Fundamentalist . Chapter 3. Chapter 3. What happens? (Summary) Changez tells the American about his recruitment at Underwood Samson, meeting Jim and his awe of the company He tells of his sense of belonging in New York
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist Chapter 3
Chapter 3 What happens? (Summary) • Changez tells the American about his recruitment at Underwood Samson, meeting Jim and his awe of the company • He tells of his sense of belonging in New York • He indicates his hunger for success and attraction to wealth and luxury of the American lifestyle • Important Vocab • Pragmatism: a practical approach to problems or affairs. A way of thinking about achieving results. Rational, Logical, Practical, Matter of fact, No nonsense • Systematic: done methodically, based on a system or procedure. • Orderly, Regular, Organised, Efficient
Underwood and Samson Write answers for questions: Use quotes to support your responses: What is the business of Underwood Samson? • How does Changez feel to work there? (p 37, 42) • Underwood Samson claims to be a “meritocracy” (39) • What else has been described as a meritocracy? • How does his employment there affect his identity? (38, 42-3) • Any ideas so far about how Underwood Samson works as a metaphor for the U.S? • Find quotes to show that he and Wainwright connect
Other themes/concepts • Comparison of Lahore, Pakistan and NY, USA: • FEELING HOME: - “Moving to New York felt…like coming home” (36) - “In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum…tourists would ask me for directions” (37) - “I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker” (37) - “I tend to become sentimental when I think of that city” (37) • FEELING OF RESENTMENT:“their offices were perched on the forty-first and forty-second floor…supporting my feet were the achievements of the most technologically advanced civilisation our species had ever known…[it] made me resentful” (38) • “four thousand years ago, we…had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of…America were illiterate barbarians. Now our cities were largely unplanned, unsanitary affairs, and America had universities with individual endowments greater than our national budget for education…[I felt] ashamed.” (38)
Other themes/concepts Pragmatism – “systematic pragmatism…that underpins your country’s success in so many fields” (41) • Another difference between Pakistan and America implied. • Seems to approve of/admire this quality Hints at the effects of the U.S’s “war on terror” on the East- • “this beggar is a particularly unfortunate fellow. One can only wonder what series of accidents could have left him so thoroughly disfigured” - 45 Italicised ‘accident’ implies there is more to it than that.
Foreshadowing • “And that, as you will come to understand, is saying a great deal” – 50 • “My world would be transformed, just as this market around us has” – 51 • “we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that – allows us to put the present into much better perspective” – 52 - perhaps trying to intimidate?
Writing Task • Write a paragraph (WITH LOTS OF QUOTES /EXAMPLES AND THAT FOLLOWS TEEL) about: • Changez’ complicated feelings towards America and New York as outlined in Chapter 1, 2 and 3. Collect quotes/plan paragraph tonight – write in class tomorrow
