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 Q: What are the major themes and characters in Hamid's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"? INTRODUCTION: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is considered to be one of the flagship works of well known literary author Mohsin Hamid . The novel revolves around the life events of the protagonist Changez who has to bear the brunt of the post 9/11 scenario in America. The rationale of this novel was to give an insight into the post 9/11 dilemma and skepticism of Americans towards Muslims, specifically Pakistanis. PLOT SYNOPSIS: The novel has its setting in a post-9/11 world. The discussion centered on the experience of a Pakistani living in the skeptical and terrorism-altered western world. The novel is a brief and comprehensive narration of one evening at a local café. In the café, Changez describes his life during his years in America. Changez arrives in America intending to pursue his higher education at Princeton University. Upon graduating with high honors, he falls in ...

 In this lesson, the writer narrates a very beautiful story based on maternal love, not only for the children but also for the whole family. It also explains the strength and depth of close relationships like mother-daughter, father-daughter, and husband-wife. Minta is the strongest and central character of this story. She evolves a lot through the course of the story. She is shown as a careless girl in the beginning. Minta's father takes her to the beach. He takes her to the other part of the beach, where there are no people but only the jagged pile of rocks that jutted out into the bay. There, he tells her that her mother is ill and that she will die. When she learns the fact that her mother is going to die and that she will not be able to join Marry Hills college this year, she is sad, and this sadness grows inside her, making her stronger than before. She confronts several nightmares, inner conflicts, random thoughts, and sleeplessness; she lives with the burden of the secret t...

Q: Discuss and Apply Norman Fairclough's model of Critical Discourse Analysis? ABSTRACT The Critical Discourse Analysis centers itself upon the idea that even a single alphabet, word, phrase, and gesture has a definite background ideology. The CDA describes and evaluates how the discourses construct in our social strata. The three-dimensional model of Fairclough gives us an insight into the underlying principles for critically interpreting the discourse. In our everyday life, we experience different phenomena or discourses without considering the rationale of their production and their impact. The basic idea of jotting down this document is to give you a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of the surface phenomenon by using Norman Fairclough's approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Before proceeding towards the practical manifestation of this, it will be a better strategy to get the gist of the theoretical framework of the Fairclough model. NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH...