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The conclusions are left to the audience to draw, and Hamid does this intentionally. However, what we do not realize is that we are not forced to pick a side.
The fact that this information is never confirmed nor denied underscores the fact that we must draw a personal conclusion and fill in the blanks about the characters. The reader makes a choice to follow the black and white version of the story, or to realize that Changez falls right between both America and Pakistan. The identity of the anonymous American is meant to symbolize the reader of the book presumably from a Western perspective listening to an Eastern standpoint.
The conclusions we draw about Changez and about the American express what we have been conditioned to judge about people. The Reluctant Fundamentalist hands us these questions with the knowledge that it has not led us to any certain conclusions that readers must come to those on their own. Darda, Joseph. Literature Resource Center. Golimowska, Karolina. Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Houghton Mifflin, Mohr, Dunja M.
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