CHAPTER 3

• Description of spring in Lahore
• Lahore= democratic city= similar to Manhattan
  Pakistan and American are similar for some aspects
• Changez arrives in New York and he feels at home. So coming to New York was a bit like coming home for Changez (many speakers of Urdu, driving cabs and running cafes)
  He is a New Yorker, not an American (America is a different place from the big city)
• Changez loves his job at Underwood Samson.
  It seems to be in an another world (powerful, rich, privileged)
  He begins to have an American lifestyle
• Changez recognizes that Pakistan was once at the forefront of modernity but he feels a sense of shame and resentment
  He feels disparity between Pakistan and America
• He begins to work at Underwood Samson (meritocracy)
  Presentation of Sherman (an economic fundamentalist)