The Right Passenger
1: Write a summary of ”The Right Passengers” in about 150 words.
The Right passengers, is about a man named Nadeem Riaz he is a Pakistani, whom is a taxi driver in USA. One day Nadeem Riaz picks up a young Pakistani named Faisal and a white girl. Faisal and the girl make out on the backseat and that repulses Nadeem Riaz very much, so when the girl steps out of the taxi, Nadeem Riaz and Faisal get into an argument about what Faisal is doing with the white girl and about what they each are doing in the USA. At last Faisal gets out of the taxi completely stupor, and runs away from the receipt.
2: Characterize Nadeem Riaz.
Nadeem Riaz is a Pakistani, living in the USA with a green card. He is a taxi driver in New York and he is a lowly worker. He doesn’t like to be talked down at, he expect other people to show him respect >>he drives a taxi, but, back home, in Pakistan, he owned a spare-parts shop; he was respected. He’s been in this country long enough to know that, by calling him “cabby,” she’s somehow associating him with the seedy muck of New York City<<. That is why Faisal calls Nadeem Riaz for “Riaz Uncle”. Nadeem Riaz is very religious, and he does not like the way they live life in the USA, he live by the Holy Quran, so when he sees homosexual people together and Pakistani and Caucasian together he doesn’t approve with it but he also can’t take his eyes away from what they are doing on the back seat of the taxi. >> Strangely, not once in his eight years of driving people has he had such a couple – Pakistani and Caucasian – do such things in his taxi<<. >> but the action in the back grates on him. He decides to lengthen the journey<< Nadeem doesn’t like it in the USA and he just want to go back to Pakistan. He has a family which he supports by driving the taxi. He tries to learn the way of living I the USA but he doesn’t really get it. .
3: Comment on the conflict in lines 107-161 between Nadeem Riaz and Faisal, the
The Right passengers, is about a man named Nadeem Riaz he is a Pakistani, whom is a taxi driver in USA. One day Nadeem Riaz picks up a young Pakistani named Faisal and a white girl. Faisal and the girl make out on the backseat and that repulses Nadeem Riaz very much, so when the girl steps out of the taxi, Nadeem Riaz and Faisal get into an argument about what Faisal is doing with the white girl and about what they each are doing in the USA. At last Faisal gets out of the taxi completely stupor, and runs away from the receipt.
2: Characterize Nadeem Riaz.
Nadeem Riaz is a Pakistani, living in the USA with a green card. He is a taxi driver in New York and he is a lowly worker. He doesn’t like to be talked down at, he expect other people to show him respect >>he drives a taxi, but, back home, in Pakistan, he owned a spare-parts shop; he was respected. He’s been in this country long enough to know that, by calling him “cabby,” she’s somehow associating him with the seedy muck of New York City<<. That is why Faisal calls Nadeem Riaz for “Riaz Uncle”. Nadeem Riaz is very religious, and he does not like the way they live life in the USA, he live by the Holy Quran, so when he sees homosexual people together and Pakistani and Caucasian together he doesn’t approve with it but he also can’t take his eyes away from what they are doing on the back seat of the taxi. >> Strangely, not once in his eight years of driving people has he had such a couple – Pakistani and Caucasian – do such things in his taxi<<. >> but the action in the back grates on him. He decides to lengthen the journey<< Nadeem doesn’t like it in the USA and he just want to go back to Pakistan. He has a family which he supports by driving the taxi. He tries to learn the way of living I the USA but he doesn’t really get it. .
3: Comment on the conflict in lines 107-161 between Nadeem Riaz and Faisal, the