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In "My Son The Fanatic" we're presented with two characters (son Ali and father Parvez) who choose quite different lifestyle. Describe the ethical/moral beliefs of father and son. Does Kureishi seem to hold one of them up as more positive than the other? Give evidence for your view. Are one or both of them fanatics? If so, what this it mean? This story is about an emigrant family who live in London. Parvez, the father, is a taxi driver who works hard to provide everything for his family. Ali, the son, once an accounting student, joins an Islamic fundamental sect. From the beginning of the story we learn about their quite different lifestyles. On one hand, from Parvez's point of view, Ali is a fanatic because he is engaged in religious activities too much. On the other hand, based on Ali's religious beliefs and ideas. His father is implicated in western culture too much. Maybe we can argue that both Ali and Parvez are fanatics. Ali is a fanatic because he is obsessed to follow certain rules and he judges people by his own extreme beliefs, also Parvez is a fanatic because he hates religion due to his harsh religious training when he was a boy, he is obsessed in drinking alcohol and having friendly relationship with women outs
So both Ali and Parvez are fanatics. He loves to eat pork: "He had ordered his own wife to cook pork sausages, saying to her, you're not in the village now, this is England. Ali forgets that having respect for the parents is one of the most important and vital aspects of every religion. Now we can explicate Parvez's moral and ethical beliefs and in order to do that it is better to examine Parvez's history first:"Parvez had grown up in Lahore where all the boys had been taught the Koran. Not that the other drivers had more respect. "I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house"(127). After this indignity Parvez had avoided all religions. To stop him falling asleep when he studied, the Moulvi had attached a piece of sting to the ceiling and tied it to Parvez's hair, so that if his head fall forward, he would instantly awake. He is not honest to himself and his family, if he wants to eat pork he could say, "I love to eat pork" there is no reason to relate this to fitting in the western culture. But because they are so narrow-minded and fanatical about their own views they lack this kind of understanding. Ali builds a wall between himself and his father; Instead of using the opportunity to talk to his father about his ideas and trying to find a way to influence him in right way, Ali just looks for an outlet to criticize his father's every move. Ali believes westerners hate them, therefore he joined the Islamic group to take his revenge on them. He is so obsessed with the superficial meaning of religion that he forgets that in every religion being nice and respectful toward one's religious brothers and sisters is the most important part.
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