Chapter 4

1) describing Erica's family, Changez was annoyed by Erica's father's talking about Pakistan, suspicious situation during the blackout. Two main function: differences between American and Pakistan economy, differences between the two counties's culture.

2) Hamid starts the fourth chapter  about a Changez's physical "problem" the American was looking at, and maybe wondering about it: a scar on Changez forearm. Changez makes the interlocutor, which was wondering about "what sort of training camp" Changez has hold, understand that source was not a training camp, but it was "molten wax" which had spilled from one of the candles during one of the frequent blackouts. He compares how different are the two counties giving the example of that accident: in America it surely would have become a quarrel about the candle's manufacture. Changez talking about candles begin ti talk about decorative lights around them, but says that New York by night is "one of the greatest sights in the world". The reader can understand how deeply Changez is coin bolted to New York and in the following lines the reader can find out it is because of Erica. Changez remembers the first time she invited him to ther house and introduced her parents. The speaker makes the reader understand that Erica's family was weary wealthy and lived "in the heart of the Upper East Side", one of the most luxury one. Changez decided to wear the kurta. The poet underlines the cosmopolitism in New York. Erica's father annoys Changez, he asked him "how things are back home", he understood that Erica's father thought about stereotypes. The intelligent reader should understand that what Changez is annoyed about is the fact that Erica's father think of him about being a fundamentalist, it is a stereotypical point of view. The correspondence of Erica's father are wrong.
The novelist makes two comparison to underline the differences between Pakistan and Manhattan.