Critical review: Terrorist
Summary :
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The philosophical underpinnings
- The plot purpose of connecting Ahmad to the terrorism activities
- Issue of self-determination and agency
- Truth as a disturbing of the book
- Cultural issue in the Middle-East
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
This story explores the roots (or some of the roots) of Muslim discontent in America, showing how people who are chafing at what is essentially a culture clash can internalize this into hatreds and resentments justified with polemic and intellectual rationales. The contrast between Islamic viewpoints and "godless" industrialized, consumerist, "decadent" America is starkly drawn, especially using the vehicle of Ahmad's point of view. At times the contrast alone seems nearly sufficient to answer the question asked by a character early on: "Those people out there. Why do they want to do these horrible things? Why do they hate us?" (p. 48).
This central question (for American readers, at least) is approached again and again throughout the book in various guises. Updike spends a great deal of time rather didactically exploring Islam in America through the viewpoints and mouths of his characters. He moves from the philosophical underpinnings to the cultural rifts perceived by Muslims adrift in a foreign culture, the sense of alienation that grows there from, and more.
This central question (for American readers, at least) is approached again and again throughout the book in various guises. Updike spends a great deal of time rather didactically exploring Islam in America through the viewpoints and mouths of his characters. He moves from the philosophical underpinnings to the cultural rifts perceived by Muslims adrift in a foreign culture, the sense of alienation that grows there from, and more.
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