CHAPTER 1:

• This is a dream come true. It means Changez had a lot of expectations about America, because he believed in American dream.
• Changez believed that everything was possible in the USA, for this reason he was confident of getting any job he wanted.
• Princeton University selects only very good students. Changez is smart and has never received any B. For this reason he was admitted to attend its courses. USA want only well educated people to make them study and then work there in order to produce wealth for the nation. America searches the best students in all the world, because the nation wants only the best. It wants to be the most powerful nation of the world.
• Changez was on financial aid and it was more difficult to find a job for him, but he was successful and he started working for Underwood Samson. It is a sort of discrimination, that foreigners who receive financial aid undergone by American people.
• Jim asked him if Changez’s friends knew that he was on financial aid. He answered that they didn’t know it. This highlight the social difference between American people and foreigners, especially people who are not western people, like Changez. His family was not rich, but it had an high social status in Pakistan. Changez didn’t have it in America, where he was considered a simple student.
• America’s greatest interest is producing more and more in order to be the most powerful nation in the world.
• Changez believed that Princeton University made everything possible for him and so he looked for a job, and he was hired by Underwood Samson. He believed that this job could change his life, improving it.

CHAPTER 2:

• Changez was fascinated by Erica, a nice girl he met during a holiday in Greece. They became friends and then he felt in love with her.
• Changez said that in Europe it was easier to spend a lot of money for food and to party. This shows the value of money for a person who is not rich.
• Erica was the only interest of Changez during the days in Greece. The name of the girl reminds America as well as her values and her behaviour, that are similar to the USA’s ones.
• Changez told Erica about the main differences between American culture and Pakistan one.
• Erica is a modern and free woman and America is considered a modern nations where freedom is protected.
• Erica asked Changez a lot of information about him and his birthplace to understand more about his origins. Also the American government asked him a lot information about him and his family before giving him the visa, that allowed him to live and study there.
• At the restaurant Erica sat opposite Changez. It shows clearly the distance between American people and foreigners. American people feel superior than foreigners, especially if they are Muslims.
• Erica and the Pakistani man met again in New York, where she gave him her mobile phone number. They started keeping in touch and it began a relationship, that will be interrupted only by the Twin Towers attack on 11^th September 2001.