Sunday, March 22, 2009

A Most Wanted Man pages 55-109

In these pages, learn about the methods of the secret police in Hamburg. The chief says " We stay small. We stay on the street. We do detail, not grand vision" (59). This is the method that they are using to try and find terrorists. As we know, Lydia and Melik have allowed the ragged man with the fiery eyes into their house. The man claims to be Muslim, but Melik sees that he doesn't know or follow any of the Muslim customs. For instance, he doesn't treat the Qu'ran with its deserved respect, and he doesn't pray at all. They start to believe that he may be a terrorist. At the same time, these policemen are trying to track down a terrorist that is reportedly in Hamburg. The reader is supposed to get the sense that this isn't a coincidence, and put two and two together that the man in Lydia and Meliks house might be the terrorist. This twist, early in the story, plants a seed of doubt in the readers mind that makes them wonder about who the mysterious man might really be.

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