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Terrorist: John Updike
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Terrorist is the 22nd novel written by lauded author John Updike. The story revolves around two protagonists; a radical Islamist teenager named Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, and his guidance counselor, Jack Levy. The novel seeks to explore the paradigm and motivation of religious fundamentalists (specifically Islam) while at the same time dissecting the lament of morals and chastity in the fictional New Jersey suburb of "New Prospect".
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Next, a reading from "Terrorist", Updike's new novel about the youth and life of a American boy, Ahmad of Arabic-Irish American descent. The only son of a single mother whose father left when he was three, Ahmad faces the struggle for independence and identity in the often awful world of adolescence and high school. For Ahmad, high school is a confusing mixture of temptations and turbulent emotions. Ahmad finds solace in Islam and the father figure of Shaik Rashid, a 'storefront mullah'. Rashid instructs Ahmad in the ways of Islam and later grooms & manipulates Ahmad into a terrorist plot. Jack Levy, Ahmad's guidance counselor later vies for Ahmad's faith and seeks to save him from a fatalistic and fanatic world view.
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This pondering of truisms is more germane to an appreciation of John Updike's new novel, "Terrorist," than one might first think. One of the most interesting things about this book is its convergence of imagined views about the way this country is and the way it appears. The views are, variously, those of an American high school boy, half-Irish, half-Egyptian by background, who is intoxicated by Islam; an elderly Lebanese immigrant; that immigrant's American-born son; and a rather ambiguous Yemeni imam who is the high school boy's religious teacher.
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