Virus
Tamim Ansary’s foremost email concerning the condition in Afghanistan is paralleled to a virus. Tamim Ansary writes, “I wanted to cancel my e-mail.” I’ve reached enough people, thank you; that will be all.” But it was too late. I couldn’t withdraw the e-mail. I couldn’t issue corrections, amendments, or follow-ups. My email spread like a virus throughout the United States and across the world.” The emblematic virus designates that an enormous number of personalities assessed the e-mail which depicted Afghanistan in an affirmative perspective notwithstanding the fragmentary dehumanization of the Afghans. The e-mail’s coverage accentuates the import of the internet in destabilizing injurious dogmas.
Prison
After terminating their contract in Lashkargh, Ansary’s household returned “To the family compound with the ninefoot walls. It seemed so much smaller now, prisonlike.” The rhetorical prison supposes that their lifetime at the ‘family compound’ would not be as vibrant as it were in Lashkargah. The elevated walls build the imagery of a home that is isolated from other compounds; thus, prison is apposite in portraying the abode.
‘Impressionist Painters’
While in Instabul, Ansary “Kept seeing men with long beards and berets. They looked like Impressionist painters-Like Monet, to be exact .I saw hundreds of these Monets, all over Istanbul. Finally, someone explained to me that these men were fundamentalist Muslims. Turkish law banned religious headgear.” Evidently, the men’s form espouses conventional impressionism. Although it is religion which stimulates their dressing, it spontaneously relates to Monet’s works which were embodiments of Impressionism. Ansary has been to French, thus he links the men’s exterior to the impressionism that was pervasive in French for he is unacquainted with the reality of ‘fundamental Islam.’ The ‘beards and berets’ are complete logos of ‘fundamental Islam.’
