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“You can avoid reality, but you can not avoid the consequences of avoiding the reality” (Ayn Rand, 1905-1982). In Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid, the air-conditioning is one of the most significant details in the novel that represents some of the themes that Hamid wants to emphasize. Besides jewelry, enormous house, and high-priced car air-conditioner is one of the elements that distinguish wealth from poverty. More than that, one of the reasons why Mumtaz falls in love with Daru relates to the air-conditioner. That air conditioner not only produces cool air but also generates the hot air is compelling because it represents some dualities that exist in the novel. Also, despite making people feel more comfortable during hot weather, air conditioner is artificial, which is similar to some relationships as well as some perspectives in Moth Smoke.
Air-conditioner is the barrier that separates impecunious people from prosperous people.” According to professor Julius Superb, one of the characters in Moth Smoke, concludes in one of his economic classes. He refers to lower-class people as “large and sweaty” and “masses”. In Pakistan, the heat from weather along with the hotness of the coming atomic bomb testings dry up energy from people. It is hot, too hot to survive without the air- conditioner. As a result, “sweaty” immediately becomes the adjective to describe about the penniless one. The air-conditioner plays an important role in Pakistan. It adds up the intense between the poor and the wealthy. Daru’s mother would not die if she had air-conditioner. Ozi has air-conditioner and over uses it: “his bedroom was so cold that he needed a heavy blanket to avoid shivering in the middle of summer” and “ in winter he could comfortably sleep nak...

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... doubt: What if our bomb doesn’t work?” Murad Badshah criticizes rich people using air-conditioner as killing themselves and reasons that “ACs, on the other hand, he considered unnatural and dangerous.” He thinks that people get more and more dependent on the air-conditioner that they might be miserable when there is no more air-conditioner. The air from the this superficial device is unreal. It allures opulent people from the society which is drying up all of its energy because of the extreme heat from weather and nuclear tests.
In conclusion, Moth Smoke would not be Moth Smoke anymore without air-conditioner. This incredible device has separated the prosperous from the poor, has fired up the relationship between Mumtaz and Ozi, has proved that everything has its own reason to happen, and has created an allusion for rich people making them forget about reality.

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