The reluctant fundamentalist

Chapter one- main functions

• Introduction of the protagonist;
• Set the narrative structure;
• To offer the reader the key to read and understand the novel;
• To put into evidence the stereotypes between different cultures;

The novel is a monologue, the novelist introduces the protagonist Changez . He meet an American, a silent interlocutor, in a tearoom and begins to tell his story to him.

Chapter two

• Function: characterization;
• To introduce Erica whit his point of view;
• Erica is the representation of his ideal woman;
• To show the differences between Islamic’s women and American’s;
• To compare the different way to present himself between a male and a female;
• To put in evidence the differences between social classes, he is poor, the other rich;
• To underline that the Pakistani protagonist is a man like other, even if it is Muslim;

Chapter three

• Function: narrative
• To put in evidence the American culture and technology;
• The America is cosmopolitan;
• To show economic power and meritocracy;
• To show the American mentality;
• To make a comparison between America and Pakistan economic;
• Times ago Pakistan was technologically advanced, but now is backward;