Dr. Amin Jaafari's The Attack

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The Attack is a novel based on a true story that evolves around the calm and comfortable life of Dr. Amin Jaafari, a well-known surgeon who lives in Tel-Aviv with his wife Sihem. All goes wrong when Jaafari realizes that his beloved wife was killed in a suicide bombing in a large building near his location at the time. When evidence builds that Sihem could have been a factor in the catastrophic bombing. Dr. Amin Jaafari starts a searched to find an end to the unrest he is experiencing. As he continues his extremely detailed search, he had come to realize that she may have had a another life, one that was completely removed from the modern, comfortable existence they shared as a happy couple. Amin abandons the security of his homeland city and …show more content…
For instance, Dr. Jaafari in my third novel, lived a comfortable life during the first chapter, but as he starts to realize his wife was a Muslim extremist, we start to see his personality become hardened and rough. He pushes out all comfort which he had experienced and fueled himself with anger.
Ellie, in the first novel Night, was also calm in his town of Sighet. As the story progressed, he becomes outraged and lonely. His only mission was to survive which distinguished him from others such as his father who was dying painfully and slowly at their forced labor camp. His personality as a boy began to disappear and towards the end of the novel, we see him become an adult who was grown up in chaos and fear all is life.
After being arrested on false charges by Revolutionary Guards of Iran and tortured in the Evin Prison, Marina was at her prime of emotional instability. Contrary to the other two main characters, her personality started out weak and innocent. As life continued for her and she moved to Canada with her husband, she started to become open and more revealing about her passed. The Prisoner of Tehran was a true story which explains why Marina Nemat is a influential person to this day who voices his opinion on extremism in many different countries around the

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