Chapter 1: Changez begins by telling about his life from the time he left Lahore to go to university in America.
Function: introduction of the protagonist and background.

Chapter 2: Changez meets Erica and begins his love affair with her.
Function: introduction of a new character: Erica

Chapter 3: Changez recounts his love of New York (which is different from America) and he finds the differences between New York and his native country.
Function: Changez progressively adopts to America

Chapter 4: Story about the life of Erica: her parents and her boyfriend who died.
Function: Development of Changez and Erica's relationship.

Chapter 5: Changez goes to Phillipines for valuation job of music company, he is surprised and upset to find even an outpost of America’s empire is richer than Pakistan. Filipino workers ‘look up’ to rich young Americans and he starts to assume the same attitude and language, feels sense of power that he decides people’s future.
Function: 11th September attack conseguences on Changez.

Chapter 6: Massacre of 11th September (twin towers’s fall). Erica begins to move away from Changez: they can not make love.
Function: 11th September attack conseguences on Changez.

Chapter 7: America gripped by a growing and self righteous rage after 11th September. Changez is judged by its country of origin, and not for the person who is.
Function: 11th September attack conseguences on Changez.

Chapter 8: Erica has no need of Changez next to her. Changez continues to power forward in pursuit of business fundamentals- maximum productivity.
Function: 11th September attack conseguences on Changez.

Chapter 9: Changez recognises that he has changed, rather than his country, and he was more like an unsympathetic American but gradually understands the different beauty of his family house and homeland. He tries to get in touch with Erica, but she places him in the past. Changez does not shave his beard more.
Function: 11th September attack conseguences on Changez.

Chapter 10: Changez travels for work in Chile. Changez can’t concentrate on the job, worried about Pakistan and obsessed with websites about it. He is obliged to return to New York.
Function: 11th September attack conseguences on Changez.

Chapter 11: Changez travels back to his apartment with box of belongings on the subway, different experience now-no longer so cosmipolitan, now more menacing. He visits Erica at clinic but she has disappeared. He is confused and troubled and a bit lost with complexity of his conflicting emotions.
Function: Conclusion.

Chapter 12: Changez leaves America and returns to Pakistan and works as a university lecturer. He seems to be increasingly opposed to American actions and he is surrounded by energetic young students who are interested in Pakistan’s future. He feels like Kurtz waiting for the assassin.

Function: Conclusion.