Choose any one Quote and write one page on it. Quote A: Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.

Choose any one Quote and write one page on it. please don't copy from somewhere.please don't write more than one page.

Quote A:

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile's life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. The achievements of exile are permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind forever (137).

Quote B

Nationalisms are about groups, but in a very acute sense exile is a solitude experienced outside of the group: the deprivations felt at not being with others in the communal habitation. How, then, does one surmount the loneliness of exile without falling into the encompassing and thumping language of national pride, collective sentiments, group passions? What is there worth saving and holding onto between the extremes of exile on the other hand and the often bloody-minded affirmations of nationalism on the other? (140)

Quote C

No matter how well they may do, exiles are always eccentrics who feel their difference (even as they frequently exploit it) as a kind of orphanhood. Anyone who is really homeless regards the habit of seeing estrangement in everything modern as an affectation, a display of modish attitudes. Clutching difference like a weapon to be used with stiffened will, the exile jealously insists on his right to refuse to belong (145).

Paraphrase the quote; put it in your words (one paragraph). Then, relate it to your reading of Reluctant Fundamentalist. If you choose Option A, you will want to reflect on the "rift" between Changez and his "true home," Pakistan, which he becomes conscious of in Chapter 5, BEFORE he views the collapse of the Towers. If you choose Option B, you will want to think about whether Changez, in his exiled position in post 9-11 America, "succumbs" to the temptations of nationalism; find evidence to support your view. If you choose Option C, you will want to think about how Changez "clutches" his "difference like a weapon."