Chapter 5:	
1) comparison bats-butterflies, business trip to Philippines, Manila wealthy in comparison with Pakistan, Changez behave like an American, Erica brief e-mails,New York’s World Trade Centre attacks and Changez pleased reaction, problems whith immigration at the airport.
2) Hamid starst the fifth chapert with a comparson between bats and butterflies, Changez tells the American his memories of when he was a child. The interlocutor describe teh bats as something “creepy”, this expression made Changez remember his past life in American; the intelligent reader can find out that the american word give him nostalgia from the sentence expressed by Changez “I have not heard in many years!”. Another thing to notice is the interesting comparison between bats and butterflies, Changez told the interlocutor that bats “no metter how close” they fly from buildings, they never collide (this espression recalls also to what later will happen: the WTC attack), while butterflies “tend to splatter on the windshields”. After this Chanegz keep going on with his strory of when he was in America; he tells the interlocutor about his trip to Philippines, he had the first experience of flying “first class” while drinking champagne, he had an experience e had never had, he felt very powerful and excited. Teh novelist hamid with the phrases “how quickly my sense of self-sadisfaction would later disapper!” makes the intelligent reader that something bad fatal will soon happen. Changez go in with the story and told the American how weard he felt to find out that not just New Youk was  more wealthy  than Lahore, but he discovered that Manile is also “ultra-rich”. After, Changez moves his story on his behaviour during the trip, he “attempted to act and speak” “more like an American”, he also started to answer that he “was from New York”; the intelligent reader can understand that Changez felt ashemed of identify himself as a Pkistani, he did not want to be recognised as an oriental one, he wanted to be a Western. One night, when he was in the limusine, cross the gaze with anotehr driver that looked back at him with a look of hostility, this event made him very thoughtful, Changez explained to the interlocutor that for Pakistans glare is something serius). After a lot of thoughts Changez came to the solution taht maybe he did not like American, the intelligent reader should find interesting to notice again taht Changez regognise imself as an American without giving a thought. Going on the speaker told the interlocutor about Erica, Changez had become a little worried about the shorts and not so frequent mails they exchange, but he also told that he was quite used because youngers in Pakistan had relationship very caste and separate due to the strict parents. One night at teh Hotel Changez looked at the television something btaht at first he thought was a film, bul later discovered was a real deed: the “New York’s World Trade Centre attacks”; this event, this symbolic act  left him “remarkably pleased”.Chnegz describe the action as something taht brought America to her knees”, thinking of it and talking with is cooworkers he find himself worried about Erica’s conditions, he did not know neither if she was fine nor not. Chngez alterwards decsribe how teh society had change starting from that day, at the airport he find himself treated like a terrorist, he felt “undes suspicion”, he told also thatb he felt “giulty” but without being at fault. Both in the airport of Pilippines and America he was separate from his team and was ransacked. The intelligent reader should figure out how outcasted should Changez had felt.