The Reluctant Fundamentalist

	Summary	Function	
Chapter I	Beginning of conversation between the protagonist and a mysterious American man in a Lahore café.
	Introduce the story and the first hints of cultural differences between the two character.	
Chapter II	Still in cafè, there is the narration about his meeting with Erica in Greece.
	Throw the relationship, he compares, with a closer person the point of view.	
Chapter III	“I was immediately a New Yorker”, (He isn’t American man)  people always say that  America is a different place from the big cities.
	Delineate a difference between the big cities and the rest of America.	
Chapter IV	The protagonist is in NewYork and meet Erica’s family.	Show the point of view and prejudices of the Americans on his country  (Pakistan)
	
Chapter V	Changez goes to Philipines for work. The twin towers of New York ‘s world trade Centre collapsed and he is unable to live Manila.
	Emphasize how an event can change the people’s judgment.	
Chapter VI	New York and America are marked with the attack: the aftermath can be seen as well on people. Erica feels even more the lack of Chris
	Highlight how can mark an event of such importance an entire people	
Chapter VII	Continues to describe the effect of the 9/11 (Pakistani cab drivers are being assaulted, mosques are being raided and muslims are disappeared). Changez focuses on work but he feels the pressure of the situation.
	Describe the treatment of Muslims by the Americans.	
Chapter VIII	Changez visits Erica and she is in worse shape and her mother tells him ’she doesn’t need a boyfriend’.  He worried and angered by America’s ‘dangerous nostalgia’ and her ‘determination to look back’.
	Show how the judgment, and especially the behavior of Americans is able to change the attitude of the protagonist	
Chapter IX	Changez thinks of his family. Tries to get in touch with Erica, but it has taken him awhile to do. She is at a clinic on the Hudson. Changez is angry and preoccupied about everything-the job, America, Erica and Pakistan
	Identifies many differences that he had never noticed before, between his culture and American’s	
Chapter X	Changez goes to Chile: he meets Juan Bautista, the chief of the publishing company they are valuing. Chaagez can’t concentrate on the job, worried about Pakistan and obsessed with websites about it, on the ‘threshold of great change’. His superior cautions him but Changez can’t focus and in the end he gives up and is sent back, in disgrace, to New York.	The difficult situation and prejudices prevent him from working	
Chapter XI	On the plane he thinks about America’s foreign policy. Visits Erica at clinic but she has disappeared.	Make the reader think about changing American’s visual perspective of the main character.
	
Chapter XII	Changez leaves America and returns to Pakistan and works as a university lecturer.	Demonstrate how the American judgment forced Changez to assume a new political ideology, social and cultural development.