Dead In Attic Summary

In this book 1 Dead in Attic, Chris Rose speaks about aftermath and the real experienced people faced during the disaster that happened in New Orleans. Yes, Hurricane Katrina… Chris Rose explains how it it was after Katrina and make your realize what people of New Orleans actually experienced. Chris Rose talks about how him and his family evacuated New Orleans to Mississippi and then to Maryland. He describes what happens from the cat lady that survives the storm only to die from injuries, to the California National guard troops. He also talks about how when he came back to New Orleans a week later, and that he was fortunate because, his uptown home only had a broken screen door and loose gutter but that was the only way he was lucky, because all of his belongings were practically untouched by the disaster along with the rest of the properties in the upper region of the city. He is struck by the contrasts between the city’s desolation and it trying to be normal again. Weeks go by and his friends and neighbors come back and they gather in his front every night. They have their first glimpse that New Orleans is a disaster. He says, “We often deal with the First Timer Syndrome...It’s the …show more content…
Chris says “we dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large..” That just shows that people from New Orleans are people who like to have fun and are always positive. The theme spreads around the whole book even though they might be devastated that they are home town is gone, but that doesn't change who they are.. The positive people they have always been. He says,”...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else.” Even though his city is how it is, he still loves it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Like people say, the grass is always greener on the other