Read chapter 10 of the Reluctant Fundamentalist and comment on the different conflicts which can be seen in the novel:
- a conflict between Changez and the American
- a conflict between Changez and the United States
- a conflict between Changez and his workplace (Underwood Samson)
- an inner conflict between Changez and himself
Find reasons/explanations for each of these possible conflicts.
Also, comment on the two quotes from chapter 10, from a conversation between Juan-Bautista and Changez:
“Have you hear of the janissaries? “No,” I said. “They were Christian boys,” he explained, “captured by the Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in a Muslim army, at that time the greatest army in the world. they were ferocious and utterly loyal: they had fought to erase their own civilizations, so they had nothing else to turn to.”
“There really could be no doubt: I was a modern-day janissary, a servant of the American empire at a time when it was invading a country with a kinship to mine and was perhaps even colluding to ensure that my own country faced the threat of war.”
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