![]() And with this name Changez can't really be a religious fundamentalist” (Entertainment Weekly). Hamid responded: “Many America reviewers said it meant ‘changes.’ But it's the Urdu name for Genghis, the Mongol conqueror who attacked the Muslim world. ![]() In a 2007 Entertainment Weekly interview, interviewer Jennifer Reese asked Hamid about the significance of Changez’s name. By using the language of fundamentalism when discussing an American corporation, is Hamid urging readers to consider their conceptions of the classification of “fundamentalists”? Are there any other “fundamentalist” groups in the novel?Ģ. The mantra “Focus on the fundamentals,” Changez tells his audience, was “Underwood Samson’s guiding principle, drilled into us since our first day at work” (98). In Hamid’s novel, who are we meant to see as the “fundamentalists”? The word “fundamental” frequently enters the novel when Changez relates his experience at Underwood Samson, a place where his coworkers are driven by a single-minded commitment to the “fundamentals,” “a single-minded attention to financial detail” (98). ![]() ![]() Home > Questions for Discussing These Works > Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Discussion Questions Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Discussion Questionsġ. ![]()
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