Azazel Character Analysis

about, she offered me inside her house. Once I got inside her house I took a deep breath and brushed my black hair back. Then, she told me something ,” Hi I’m Lana. Also, I think I know someone who could help you. It’s my friend Cathy. She’s good at spells and knows a lot of magic. I’ll give you some food. And some change of clothes.”

“Come here, my love. The man was nothing, you’re just troubled by what happened to mommy. He’s gone now, he really is. Let us make a hot bath for you and wash your mouth.”

She pushed a few loose strands of her raven black hair from her face, regarding him scrutinizing

In the novel, Zeitoun, Kathy tried many times to convince Zeitoun into evacuating, when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Unfortunately she was unsuccessful, and therefore he stayed in the city through the hurricane. The novel, explains Zeitoun’s obstinate refusal to evacuate from New Orleans with his wife and children during the hurricane. “[Zeitoun's] grandmother had stayed put during countless storms in her home on Arwad Island, and he planned to do the same. A home was worth fighting for.”(Zeitoun, 70, Eggers). Despite the fact that a house is may seem replaceable, this is actually symbolic of assimilation in the United States, just like Zeitoun’s grandmother refused to leave her house during many storms on Award Island, Zeitoun's has now settled in New Orleans and he is not planning on leaving.

“What mum?,” Shocked to hear her mum’s voice she calls out again. “ Mum! Is that you?”

Hunting can be a very dangerous game. “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell shows you how dangerous hunting can be. Zaroff demonstrates that he is intelligent, rich, and confident.

(King Lazarus) "Juliette... Please leave this to me, but for now, we must return. Your mother has been worried sick." She nods in responds, and the king carries Juliette as they return to the castle before the chaos

“Ethan, you do not have to cut your hair, it is just a silly tradition. Don’t let them pressure you into doing something that you don’t wish to do,” she said.

Rainsford’s resourceful nature makes him an ideal hunt for Zaroff because his clever trickery makes the hunt both a challenge and an entertainment for someone like Zaroff who enjoys deadly games. During the game, General Zaroff gives Rainsford three days ahead for the game. While General Zaroff was looking for Rainsford to hunt, Rainsford was using his resourcefulness to survive. "’I'll give him a trail to follow’," muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness” (11). Rainsford thinks of setting a false trail, because he knows that he needs to rest, and making a fake path would buy him the most time. Rainsford thinks "’I'll give him a trail to follow’"(11) muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness” (11). Although “the trackless wilderness” is a dangerous place for the prey, Rainsford uses the jungle and different wildlife to camouflage himself. Zaroff loves intellectual

"Finish up the pancakes, I have to tame Charlie and Zoe's mess of what we call hair."

“Get out of my head!” I screamed, clawing at the hair on my head, ripping out a chunk of brown curls.

“I’m in bad hands. You cannot save me from the horror someone has put on my family.” I say, but knowingly let her come to the rescue.

Like a loving mother, she reached out and combed the patient’s stiff and tangled hair with her hands. She whispered, “Don’t worry, I’m here for you.”

“Don’t worry a pretty lil’ hair on your head. Nothing bad will happen to you, per say.”

Zeitoun gazed at his brother’s energetic smile. His brother Mohammed had everything he could ever desire. “He was everything” (Eggers 92). Mohammed was the most known successful athlete in the history of Syria. He was "a long-distance ocean swimmer” (Eggers 92), in which people considered him as one of the best in the world. His country of birth was not known for “its coast” (Eggers 92) and so because of that, his accomplishments were even more stunning and astonishing. Mohammed “won races in Syria, Lebanon, and Italy” (Eggers 92). He was able to swim thirty miles straight and do it quicker than anyone else, quicker “than any Italian, any Englishman or Frenchman or Greek” (Eggers 92). Zeitoun gazed at the photo closer. “Poor Mohammed” (Eggers