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约翰·厄普代克因擅长描写白人中产阶级生活而被称为社会历史变迁的准确记录者。然而,他的后“9·11”小说《恐怖分子》却一改其一贯的创作内容、主题和风格,通过描写18岁中学生艾哈迈德由一名单纯美国青年转变成狂热恐怖分子的过程,揭示恐怖主义源于不同的社会环境、不同的宗教信仰及人性善恶的冲突。所有这些冲突皆可归结为后“9·11”时代的文明冲突。
John Updike is known as the accurate recorder of changes in social history because he is good at describing middle-class white people. However, his later “9.11” novel, “Terrorist”, has changed his consistent content, theme and style of writing by transforming the 18-year-old middle school student Ahmad from a simple American youth into a fanatical terrorist To reveal the conflict of terrorism originated from different social environments, different religious beliefs and good and evil human beings. All of these conflicts can be attributed to the clash of civilizations in the post-9-11 era.