In this text I am going to analyse an extract from chapter three of The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid the extract presents the new district in Lahore.  

The narrator's choice of using the drammatic monologue as the most suitable narrative tecnique is a way to silence the Stranger, his interlocutor in order to put in evidence a different point of view: Easter one, about the Twin Tower attack and the relationship between America and Pakistan.

Indeed the speaking voice is Changez, a pakistani young man who wants to keep the Stranger's attention comparing Lahore  new discrict with Manhattan. This is clear  when Changez exclaims: "Like Manhattan? Yes Precisely". The intelligent reader perceives an ironical tone : the apparently simple description of the new district of Lahore is just a narative pretext to bring to surface contradditions of what should  be a globalized world. The truth is that the ancient hierarchy still exist indeed there are a precisely division between poors and riches. In this case "poor" is refer to pakistan while "rich" recalls Manhattan.

There is no need to develop the dichotomy further because in the all extract Changez tries to convince the interlocutor to feel at home in Manhattan: he reminds his home town trough his mother tongue as well the tipical pakistan food, to conclude trough a memory of a song which he heard at his cousin wedding. The irony uses is a defence weapon to hide a sense of nostalgia. His examples of surviving the cultural shock are attributable to the difficulties overcome many differences between the two cultures.

Moving on with a deep analysis of the extract, the intelligent reader understands that Changez's speech sounds as a critique on the binary sistem about society, in particular on the American way to integrate foreign people. Changez is been accepted until America wanted. To conclude each lexical choice in the extract makes me think that Changez  uses similiarities with his home town to speak about his betrayed trust in America values: he is guilty himself.