I'm finding a lot of sympathy for Samad in the proceeding chapters. I myself am from a different country and often times feel a loss of culture and become devastated by it. When you are a foreigner in a country, you feel a tremendous loss of identity. Samad is struggling with this loss of identity and feels that sending Magid to his native country will "save" him from the corrupt world of England. These past chapters have really opened my eyes to how I have felt in the past about identity. However, I believe that Samad might be doing more harm than good. I believe that Millat is acting out so much because he misses his brother and does not have his guidance. Btw, I know Alsana is now overweight but was that what the Professor was talking about when she mentioned a physical problem Alsana was having?
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I disagree and sympathize with Samad's struggle as a Bangali man in England. His character reflects upon the post colonialist idea that the former colonized peoples still feel the after effects of the oppression of the colonizers. This idea is further exacerbated for someone like Samad, who has more freedom than his ancestors who were formerly colonized by the British but still feels awkward because he lives in England-the country that colonized Bangladesh. This sentiment is illustrated in his conversation with Mad Mary, in which he comments, "We are a divided people, aren't we ?" (Smith, P.149)
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