When Fundamentalists Return to the Orient: an Analysis of Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" and Mohsin Hamid's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although widely praised as an engaging piece of postmodern fiction, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient also drew a considerable amount of unfavourable, if not utterly hostile, critical judgement.Mostly, the unsatisfied reviewers were from the US (or, in one case, from Canada) 1 and their disagreement was due to a disappointing finale, when the Indian sapper Kip, on hearing that the Americans had been using nuclear weapons against Japan, had instantly -and surprisingly -abandoned his group of friends and his sweetheart Hana on the grounds of an achieved consciousness of the East-West divide.The perceptible incongruity of Kip's hastened decision to sever ties with his comrades however lies in his confused and confusing notion of identity that seemingly brings him to mistake a dying man -supposedly English, but recently identified as Hungarianfor the person responsible for the nuclear attack on Japan: the plot then discloses not only the evolution but also the split in the Indian boy who 1 See for instance TOM CLARK, On Foreign Ground, in "The World and I Online" (1993), 8.2
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".