CLASS TEST CORRECTION

“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is a novel that gives the reader more than only one interpretation starting from the title. Indeed, it is not clear what the fundamentalist is reluctant to (his fundamentalism, other’s thought) or what kind fo fundamentalism he follows.
Everyone could firstly think of religious fundamentalism, and in particular of the one of Islam: a strict adherence to religious dogmas and an acceptation of what the religion teaches without any question. But, reading the novel, the intelligent reader understands that this is not the case with Changez. Indeed the protagonist adopts an American way of thinking, or better, he thinks to adopt, since he studied and graduated himself at Princeton, and works as an analyst for Underwood Samson. The fundamentalism he seems to follow is the one of economy and finance. “Focus on fundamentals” is the slogan of Underwood Samson. But after the events of 11st September something breaks. Changez notices that, despite his adherence to the financial and American way of thinking, he doesn’t focus himself on fundamentals. 
For him they don’t mean anything. He’s the first, the better analyst Underwood Samson has but his colleagues see him as a terrorist, as an Islam fundamentalist. So he starts heating them, and gradually his hate towards the American society increases, because he is considered a foreigner despite his ability in financial work. He doesn’t accepts that his own land, Pakistan, full of cultural power, is only mentioned for the terrorism and the Islam fundamentalism. 
So there is a third meaning of the word “fundamentalism” Changez adheres to, and it is the defense and the protection of the integrity oh his own land.