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She recommended him to the local newspaper for an internship where he was asked to cover the unfolding story of attempts by some in Luton to shut down the only mosque in town. In particular, his English schoolteacher encouraged him to pursue his passion for writing. But it is also a story of kindness and support extended to him by some of the white teachers and neighbors. Greetings from Bury Park, the book Blinded by the Light is based on, is the story of young Sarfaraz Manzoor's experience of living in a white working class neighborhood and being subjected to bigotry and racism by neighbors and classmates. Javed's female classmate Eliza also becomes close to him and the two start to date. The shared love of Springsteen's music brought the two boys close. The person who introduced Javed to Springsteen's music was his Sikh classmate Roops, the only other Asian in high class which consisted almost entirely of white boys and girls. Lyrics of his songs like "Johnny 99" and "The Factory" made Springsteen a working class hero. Springsteen's father was often unemployed and his mother was the main breadwinner for the family. With plant closings and de-industrialization that cost Javed's father his job at a local auto plant and forced his mother work long hours as a seamstress, the teenager experienced what Springsteen's poetry is about.
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Springsteen's music "speaks" to Javed, the teenage character's name for real-life Sarfraz Manzoor who is played by Viveik Kalra. Manzoor's memoir is about the power of Bruce Springsteen's music influencing him as a Pakistani teen growing up in Britain in 1980s. It is based on British Pakistani journalist Sarfaraz Manzoor's 2007 memoir "Greetings from Bury Park". Blinded by the Light draws its title from a popular Bruce Springsteen song of the same name.