RECLAMS UNIVERSAL-BIBLIOTHEK NR.19876, 2003 PHILIPP RECLAM JUN. Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist Group: F. Carbonera M.Ferrigno Class: 5ALS School year:

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.

OBJECTIVE: At the end of the project work students should be able to: Discuss the principle of the novel: Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Nr , 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.

Chapter 1 Functionss: Introduction of the main character Changez and the American interlocutor; Description of the setting: Pakistan (Lahore: Old Anarkali), USA (Princeton) ; Presentation of the narrative technique. Main Points: 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.

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.

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. Main Points: 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.

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.

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.

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: Patriotims jasmine, mourning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chapter 11 Functions: To highlight climax 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

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.