Come September By Arundhati Roy Summary

In the address of “Come September” by Arundhati Roy, Roy talks of the imperfections and her thoughts on the American Government’s agenda. Roy explains she is against the effects of one organization or government having too much power and controlling too much, which, as she states, results in problems on the larger scale. Roy also talks of the differences of the American culture and the India culture. She also rationalizes the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 as being something that was bound to happen to the American people because of how they are. Roy starts her speech with the explanation of what would happen if someone were thinking differently in her home country. Roy also talks of how if one organization, or

She describes how the grief still lingers in the American people today as well as their war on terror. The description of the importance of September 11th to her comes shortly after in the form of prior history on this day. Roy concludes with her thought on American culture and how the war on terror is about the way Americans are living, not the Indians. That America’s cost of living and excessiveness cannot last forever and will fall like every great empire in history. And, that even without the terrorists helping America along to its inevitable collapse, America will fall due to its ‘living large’ life

One of these topics being how the American Government handled the Saddam Hussein conflict and the modernism of America. Ajami talks of what was said and done in this conflict as if showing his own views through the events and of what happened while Roy speaks of how she does not like what she sees. Roy speaks about the “American style” and how “it is not sustainable”. She says that “power has a shelf life,” and that America will someday fail because of several different reasons. Some of these reasons include the market style that Americans use as well as the ratio of power to people in American Government. The empire will fall, Roy states. She believes that the American system is very flawed and that, “structural cracks have already appeared.” Ajami then shows a different side of the story of American Modernism. This includes some countries thinking that America is religious and other believe it is mostly not religious as well as bringing in the “Burden of Modernism.” The burden of modernism is the decision to transfer the level of modernism that America lives of or to stay with the traditional roots and not convert. This has been a tough decision for many countries as their traditional roots is their religious beliefs and this change is what has brought the large-scale conflicts that we are seeing today. Ajami describes modernism in America as Americans “enjoying life and they are proud of their lives, and they are