CHAPTER I Because she was only fifteen and busy with her growing up, Lucia's periods of reflection were brief and infrequent; but this morning she felt weighted with responsibility.
As well as ethnic and racial tensions, you might look at questions of generational difference, gender, religion, empire, class.
Use textual evidence from the story to justify your interpretation, and pay attention to literary strategies such as structure, diction language choice characterisation and narrative structure.
In his narrative, Kureishi explores issues of identity and empire and artfully creates a fractured relationship that allows for consideration and analysis of these themes on both an individual and a societal level.
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It is both useful and interesting to note how Kureishi frames the various aspects of this. Parvez is immediately introduced to us as a father, but is also identified as a taxi driver, and as one of many Punjabis working at the same cab company.
It is worth noting that, until Ali is discovered to be praying, there is no mention of Islam at all — until this point, this story follows a familiar father and son relationship. By leaving any mention of Islam until the audience is introduced with the characters, Kureishi is aiming to establish his characters as familiar and relatable before introducing the less familiar and more alien in Islam.
In the story Parvez is struck dumb and makes no further attempt to understand these beliefs, or even to discuss or debate them. His reaction is, instead, to consider evicting his son from the family home, and ultimately his inability to understand leads him to resort to violence.
Although not directly representative of the behaviour of Western governments towards Muslim fundamentalists and extremists, the twentieth century is full of occasions of gross intolerance and a failure to enter into any sort of dialogue concerning the perceived injustices inflicted on the Middle East by European and American nations.
Ali feels so strongly about these injustices that the entire concept of his British identity becomes abhorrent to him, and he rejects every single aspect of it. Orchard Park2.
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Palatine, Illinois, p.In this section, we will highlight the elements of our analysis of “My Son the Fanatic” by Hanif Kureishi. The story mostly follows a linear plot structure, while including literary techniques like backstory and foreshadowing.
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