Dave Eggers Zeitoun Character Analysis

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For instance, Eggers strengthened his ethos, which refers to one’s authority and credibility, by interviewing Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun for their commemoration of events during the Hurricane (Rhetorical Approaches p. 21). By interviewing people who actually experienced and lived through the traumatic events, there is a sense of credibility that can be given to the author. Eggers also added more credibility to himself by including praises at the beginning of the book. The praises offered in the book looks official because they are provided by well-known people and publications. For example, Entertainment Weekly praised the book as “Best Book of the Decade” (Zeitoun), even The New Yorker gave praise stating “Through the story of one man’s experience after Hurricane Katrina, Eggers draws an indelible picture of Bush-era crisis management” (Zeitoun). The New Yorker’s statement about Eggers’ work shows

Jack Gantos is a middle aged man. He is one of those people that you would think of in vegas blowing all his money to try and win it all. For him there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, because he is full of hope. He never finished high school, left after his junior year. His grades are what you would call awful. Although his grades did not reflect it he is a brilliant human being, with a desire to be a writer. He loves trying new things. He often takes road trips and jumps from job to job with the changing of towns he lives in. he states the sudden moves are to find new and better things to write about. He has little to no money because he spends it on beer and weed. Likely to trust any man standing next to him he tries his luck in becoming a drug dealer but fails to do so and ends up living back with his dad in san juan.

dilemma of killing her mother. Something that makes me relate with her is that she is

The play Lost in Yonkers written by Neil Simon take action in the United States in 1942. In the Jewish family, Kurnitz becomes a tragedy. Died a wife and mother of two children, her name was Evelyn. She left the widowed spouse with a debt of $9,000 for her medical treatment. Eddie, her husband, quickly got a decent position of a Salesman, which allowed him for the year to eliminate this burden. But, his duties related to the continuous travels and he has somewhere to leave his sons, Jacob (Jay) and Arthur (Arty). The only possible place where to leave them for an almost a year will be his mother's house. She is a senior woman with a very heavy character with whom he had no contact for several years. The father took the boys in Yonkers, where

As we read chapter two, we saw a comparison between the book and the poem we had read earlier. The poem first talked about how Chicago does not have a good justice system. It also described the women that lived there as prostitutes and how their children were terrified of the city. Then, the poem revealed how the city of Chicago was dark and smoke filled. The city represented darkness, but the people of the town were still proud of it. Even though it was a dark town, it still thrived in jobs and even in the railroad system. The pride of Chicago was something many experienced.

The media described the grotesquely how the boys raped and beat Trisha Meili. The media describe them stalking Ms. Meili like hungry wolves in the night. The media had such a strong hold on the city that whatever the news was accepted. The media also got their information wrong about these young men. The inner city ghettos are often called the concrete jungles of America. Who lived in the concrete jungles wild savage animals? That was the image America received when watching the news coverage.

Now I realise it seems a bit hypocritical of me to attack the media’s representation of a news event when I myself am a part of the hype-generating circus we call mass media. However, the voice of my wise, high-school English teacher echoes in my subconscious that we should always be critical of the texts we consume and conscious of the

2. In the 21st century exposure to media is an everyday event for most of us. Even at the grocery store, we see magazines and newspapers with eye-catching headings that may not be true. Also, the news is everywhere, and with technology on the rise, we even get news alerts on our phones. The media has taken over society. Most of the stories we read about seem to be true but in reality, are they giving a true insight of what is actually happening? Some of the stories cause people to become blindfolded from reality. This is because the stories that people read or see have a profound impact on shaping our reality rather they are true or not. We see the news about events that are going on in the world; rather they are catastrophic events or devastating events that were done by humans.

Out of all themes in Danticat’s “Krik? Krak!” flight has been used in nearly every section in her novel. Flight in her book was associated with fire, blood, hope, freedom, and religion. Heat rises therefore if you can control it you can fly to hope and freedom. Flight and fire are commonly together, this relation can be found in 1937 having wings of fire, the relation is strongest in “A Wall of Fire Rising”.

. . other agencies . . . [that] were involved” (307), especially paranoia regarding Islamist terrorists from the 9/11 attack, resulted in the systematic search to incarcerate Muslims like Zeitoun. As a result, when Zeitoun is about to enter Camp Greyhound and questions a passing soldier why he and his friends have been arrested, the soldier replies, “‘You guys are Al Qaeda’” (212), concurring with the MSSTs’ purpose of apprehending potential members of major terrorist groups. Obviously, this is not a rational reason for an arrest, as the men have done nothing illegal. Eggers uses this appeal to authority (through the quote of a soldier actively participating in the situation) to underline just how much more of a role race and religion play in Hurricane Katrina’s law enforcement than actual criminal behavior. Zeitoun’s only “crime” is being Arab and believing in Allah in a time when Islamophobia is rampant, reasons that do not justify the mistreatment he suffers during the next couple of weeks as a supposed “terrorist.” Therefore, through the inclusion of credible evidence and quotes, Eggers successfully harnesses logos to affirm the unmerited racial and religious injustices that Zeitoun faces during and after his arrest, simply because he is a Middle Eastern, Muslim man.

Our actions and interactions with others and society are what define us. Society’s perception of an individual may contrast with that individual’s perception of self. Our actions and interactions with others create certain stigmas which may not change despite progression and change an individual has undergone. But however at the end of the day we are our own creators and we chose who we interact with.

In reference to the media’s role, they have been highlighted for playing a part in maintaining these views by portraying victims in a certain way according to the newsworthiness of each story

As Griffin (2009, p. 364) so concisely stated, “the media aren’t very successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about”. In more recent times, the direction of this theory has changed. Scholars have begun to focus on how the media “frame” social issues through the inclusion and omission of certain attributes of particular events (Ruddock, 2013). “Framing” refers to the forming of narratives and concepts that deliver meaning as an event unfolds (McCombs and Shaw, 1972). Themes such as media violence, particularly in the event of a school shooting, are often used to repeatedly reinforce social norms that are deemed important by the media. As a result, generic stereotypes are inevitably cast and the potential copycat behavior advertised.