Zeitoun

Rather than escaping disaster and fleeing New Orleans, he decided to sacrifice his safety and guard his city. Zeitoun felt as if “he had been called to stay, that God knew he would be of service if he remained. His choice to stay in the city had been God’s will”(Eggers110). Excerpts such as this one illustrate Zeitoun as an extremely religious and valiant man. He put others before himself and took responsibilities into his own hands. However, when Zeitoun was placed in Camp Greyhound, his valiant character slowly began to fade. Due to mistreatment, Zeitoun, the valiant hero, began to waste away; he knew “the conditions had begun to take a very real toll on his psyche. He had been angry until now, but he had been thinking clearly. Now the connections were more tenuous…It diminished the humanity in all of them”(Eggers236). Eggers further displayed Zeitoun’s diminishing mental stability when he was placed in a maximum security unit at Hunt’s correctional center. Eggers wrote, “…he had been confined twenty-three hours a day to his cell…The environment would drive any sane man mad”(Eggers264). However, as we look towards Zeitoun’s actions after he was released, he appeared to be okay, despite his desire to work himself for hours more than usual. The only noticeable mental issues that were a result of his mistreatment were displayed within Kathy’s character. Eggers included that Kathy’s test results “pointed to

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The quote, “Sometimes it’s not the people who changed, but the mask that falls off” by an unknown speaker accurately describes a famous man Abdurahman Zeitoun. This man, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, was so popular, a novel was written about his heroic actions during Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun was a man that was nationally recognized as a hero for his actions during Hurricane Katrina in 2004. Zeitoun is infamously known for paddling around New Orleans in his canoe, rescuing many civilians from their flooded homes and bringing them to safety, and later being wrongly arrested by government officials due to his Islamic faith. However, much controversy was caused after Zeitoun was arrested for abuse charges against his wife. Some people see Zeitoun

In the novel, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, the main character, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, is an immigrant of Syria who stays in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and is arrested due to the suspicion of looting, but really is arrested because of his race and how he looks. Zeitoun’s faith and loyalty to his community and home is tested through the many obstacles of Hurricane Katrina and including his religion, racism, and his very own dignity. The author, Dave Eggers who is also the speaker in novel, proves all examples of Zeitoun’s challenges credibly in the text.

Is it worth risking your life to protect your belongings and property when a Category 5 hurricane is barreling towards your city? Is it right to disregard reports about a storm because in past experiences the news has been wrong? In Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, a man named Zeitoun decides to let his family evacuate New Orleans without him so that he can stay behind and protect his several homes, business, and personal belongings from Category 5 hurricane Katrina. Once the hurricane passes, and he survives, the city turns into chaos. The streets turn violent and the great city turns into a third world country. The power goes out for weeks, and there is no water. The breakdown of all authority gets him arrested and he is soon thrown behind bars. Zeitoun should have evacuated New Orleans with his family for not only did he put his business in front of them, but also his shortsightedness almost left his children without a father. Zeitoun’s belongings and business items are all replaceable, but a father is not.

Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive hurricanes to whirl through the southern states of America in 2005, is probably one of the worst natural disasters of the United States in the 21st century. Damages from the storm were estimated at more than $100 billion . People living in the southern states fled north to reach safety from the storm after hearing about it being a category five hurricane on the news a few mornings before Katrina hit the shore. Authorities were doing what they were supposed to be doing, telling everyone to seek shelter, board up windows, head north and prepare for the storm. Everything in the beginning appeared to be just another

The 21st century for America so far includes two major disasters, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. David Eggers documents the Zeitoun’s struggles during Hurricane Katrina in his book Zeitoun. Choosing specific details, Egger’s purpose is to juxtapose Zeitoun’s humanity before and during Katrina to the cruelty Zeitoun was given after, and how Americans should reflect on those disparities.

Eggers did a fantastic job of showing this. Taking the way he wrote could lead to clues that he actually did try to incorporate the way Zeitoun treated his wife and family. Eggers really did not fully show that Zeitoun was an unbreakable superhero. He shows how Zeitoun and Kathy disagree on things and how they argue.(Nashe) When Zeitoun and Kathy went on that walk to this huge rock, Kathy said multiple times how she wanted to turn back around and forget about what they promised. Zeitoun would not let her turn around. He would say that they had come to far to turn back. This could allude to the abuse he put Kathy under. The rock could be the goal, and Zeitoun would want to stay together and prove that they had a strong marriage and a strong will to grow together. Kathy turning around could act like her wanting to give up everything they went through and for the both of them to start off brand new; but Zeitoun “won.” They walked to the rock, but even though Kathy kept up the strong act for a while, it did not last. Eggers also showed he was stubborn and that he put a lot of effort into his work. Zeitoun eventually became a workaholic, partly because of the fact he was imprisoned. After the storm though, Eggers shows how both of them are broken.(Nashe) Without indirectly adding these little hints, it is easy to say that Eggers probably did not know about the abuse; but since there are the tiny hint, it is possible to say that Eggers might have known about some of it. He might not have known all the details, but he perhaps knew a little something. He does not have the right to come out and just say that Kathy was abused because he used what the family gave to him. If they gave him the information, he should have said something, but if they did not give him the information he can not just accuse Zeitoun. The fact that Eggers and the filmmaker, Jonathan Demme, said “Our primary

The author incorporates personal bias in the book Zeitoun to demonstrate the horrors of death and separation during Hurricane katrina. The author's portrayal of Zeitoun as a devoted father made readers feel a sense of loss and anguish at his disappearance: “There is nothing worse than this, Kathy thought, there can be nothing worse than this” (Eggers 185). Kathy trying to assure her daughter that her father was living, gave the reader a glance of the pain other families faced when they had no communication with their family members after Katrina. Zeitoun’s depiction of a benevolent man who feels guilt for not being able to save the dogs. “The dogs were just under the windowsill a tangle of limbs heads to heaven as if they had been waiting for

Zeitoun is a book, written by Dave Eggers, that focuses on the 2005 disaster, Hurricane Katrina, through an Islamic family. Zeitoun and has wife Kathy live in Baton Rouge with their four children. Once Kathy discovers the severity of the storm she leaves with her children, and Zeitoun stayed behind. After staying behind, he was thrown into a makeshift prison, then later transported to a high security prison. Throughout his imprisonment he was denied his basic rights any American citizen deserved. Zeitoun was held in prison for a month, leaving his family panicking and clueless of his whereabouts. The only explanation for being denied his rights, and traumatizing the Zeitoun family, was due to the Federal Emergency Response Agency, more commonly

Before abducted and forced into the life of slavery, Aminata Diallo (a free-born Muslim) was a carefree eleven year old. In a blink of an eye, life can go upside down, and that is exactly what happened to Aminata Diallo. One day, in Bayo, while “traveling” the Diallo family

But Kathy is not an anomaly. There are millions and millions of women in the U.S. and around the world who struggle everyday to protect their families and keep their governments honest. And that includes Muslim women.

Life as a Refugee Life as a refugee is a struggle many people have to face when escaping a third world country, a country going through a major war, and even countries that are going through a major economical depression. The question that is asked is, what device will Carlos Eire use to show him life as a refugee and how he overcomes it in Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy. Eire shows his overcoming the stereotypical life of a refugee by showing his progression from a typical Cuban boy to becoming a well known and respected author. Carlos Eire uses imagery, metaphor, and allusion to portray his life and how he overcomes the typical definition of a refugee. Carlos Eire lived in a high class society in Cuba before Castro

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In the story, Zenkei Shibayama helps us understand a true love from ancient times in China. At the beginning of the story, Chokan, who lives in Koshu in Chine, has two children, but the elder children died when she was young. Therefore, he loves Sen-jo, who is the younger children and is a beautiful girl, too much. Like many people in his country, he decides to choice her lovers when she is young. Finally, he decides to choose Ochu because he is a good person. Ochu and Sen-jo had a good time together when they was young. Moreover, they think they will get marry when they grow up. Unfortunately, for some reasons, Sen-jo's father changes his decision and Sen-jo has to marry Hinryo. Sen-jo and Ochu are astonished too much about this situation.