Indledning
The short story “My Son is a Fanatic” is about a Pakistani family consisting of a father Parvez, mother, and son Ali. The family emigrated from Pakistan to London.
The father is a cab driver who works at night. The father notices his son Ali is beginning to change, he throws out all his possessions, doesn't talk to his friends, and even breaks up with his girlfriend.
Ali has a harsh attitude towards his father, and Parvez is kinda ashamed that he can no longer control Ali.
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Uddrag
The story starts in media res with a 3^rdlimited narrator; the narrator follows one of the main characters, the father, Parvez.
Because we see it from his point of view in the story, the narrator only allows us to see Parvez's thoughts and feelings
such as "Yet Parvez felt his son's eccentricity as art injustice" (p.119, l. 23). His name refers to Parvez, and Ali is often referred to as the boy "And now the boy" (p.1, l. 27)
The setting in the story takes place in the capital of England, London. We don't hear much of the surroundings. It's only hinted at, but maybe they live in the poor district of London.
It's mentioned in this line," He had always been aware of the pitfall which other men's sons had fallen into England." (p.1, l. 23-24)
The two main characters are Parvez, a middle-aged father, and Ali, Parvez's son. Parvez came from the capital Lahore of the province Punjab in Pakistan and emigrated with his wife to London;
he has lived in London for at least for twenty years "Parvez had been a taxi driver for twenty years" (p.2, l. 6 ), and in that time he has worked as a cab driver at night.
He is a Punjabis. "Like him, most of the other drivers were Punjabis," and Punjabi means that you are part of the Indo-Aryan ethnic group. Parvez is very disinterested in Islam culture and Islamic values.
We can very well see that because he is friends with a prostitute, drinks alcohol, and he fully assimilates into the western culture, "You are too implicated m Western civilization" (p.7, l.34-35 )
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