The Theme of Crescent Crescent, a book by Diana Abu-Jaber, is about a cook at Nadia’s Café named Sirine, a middle-aged woman who is Iraqi-American. Sirine lives with her uncle, a man who works at a local university and is an avid storyteller. Sirine’s uncle meets a new professor, Hanif, at the university, and encourages Sirine to pursue him. Hanif, also called Han, is a brilliant man from Iraq, but he is also a man with deep secrets and scars from his past. The two begin a romantic relationship, but all too soon things within the relationship begin to crumble. There are speculations of cheating, actual cheating, and lack of trust that begin to come between Sirine and Han. Eventually, Han heads back to his home in Iraq because he feels
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Han is seemingly patient and charismatic character. In chapter twenty, Han discusses his life as a young boy in Iraq, focusing on a pool surrounded by older women of different nationalities. “Some of the women spoke to him in English and some in their own language, and he found that if he listened closely enough that the words’ meaning would eventually reveal itself, glimmering through the sounds like fruit on dark branches” (Abu-Jaber 249). If Han had not been patient with learning the language, the likelihood of him becoming a professor would have significantly decreased. Also without him patiently waiting by the pool and the events that happened around the pool, he would not have had the educational opportunities that pushed him to his position as a professor. His life would have been vastly different, but maybe his patience pushed him too far away from where he is from. Han begins to miss home, a place he believes he can never return to, but he does eventually. When he returns there he is captured, we, as readers, are unaware of what happens while he is there, but we do know that somehow he manages to call Sirine nine months …show more content…
The pair were slowly brought together through Sirine’s uncle, and constantly running into each other. The couple seemed to be in a blissfully perfect relationship, but worry set in with Sirine. “If she leaves now she will never return: it is too much for her. She begins to do what she always did when she was a little girl-she looks for a sign, any sign” (Abu-Jaber 178). She worries about staying with him because of a picture, and Han’s short response about it. Sirine manages to stay past it, and the pair are patient with each other. However, at a dance Sirine believes she sees her lost scarf upon the head of one of Han’s students, so she rips it off. Once Sirine realizes that she is wrong she runs from the party where they were and is unaware of Han’s attempts to contact her. All of these things lead to Sirine’s eventually infidelity with Aziz, but these things do not push Han away from her. He is patient with her through it all. Han asks a great deal of hope and patience of Sirine when he decides to board a plane and head to Iraq. Through all that happens between these two they manage to still love each other. They are not separated because of a lack of love, but because a deep need for Han to finish his story at home. Han has patiently waited for the time to return to his mother, now he has found it, Sirine only needed to wait and hope he returns
Han is seemingly patient and charismatic character. In chapter twenty, Han discusses his life as a young boy in Iraq, focusing on a pool surrounded by older women of different nationalities. “Some of the women spoke to him in English and some in their own language, and he found that if he listened closely enough that the words’ meaning would eventually reveal itself, glimmering through the sounds like fruit on dark branches” (Abu-Jaber 249). If Han had not been patient with learning the language, the likelihood of him becoming a professor would have significantly decreased. Also without him patiently waiting by the pool and the events that happened around the pool, he would not have had the educational opportunities that pushed him to his position as a professor. His life would have been vastly different, but maybe his patience pushed him too far away from where he is from. Han begins to miss home, a place he believes he can never return to, but he does eventually. When he returns there he is captured, we, as readers, are unaware of what happens while he is there, but we do know that somehow he manages to call Sirine nine months …show more content…
The pair were slowly brought together through Sirine’s uncle, and constantly running into each other. The couple seemed to be in a blissfully perfect relationship, but worry set in with Sirine. “If she leaves now she will never return: it is too much for her. She begins to do what she always did when she was a little girl-she looks for a sign, any sign” (Abu-Jaber 178). She worries about staying with him because of a picture, and Han’s short response about it. Sirine manages to stay past it, and the pair are patient with each other. However, at a dance Sirine believes she sees her lost scarf upon the head of one of Han’s students, so she rips it off. Once Sirine realizes that she is wrong she runs from the party where they were and is unaware of Han’s attempts to contact her. All of these things lead to Sirine’s eventually infidelity with Aziz, but these things do not push Han away from her. He is patient with her through it all. Han asks a great deal of hope and patience of Sirine when he decides to board a plane and head to Iraq. Through all that happens between these two they manage to still love each other. They are not separated because of a lack of love, but because a deep need for Han to finish his story at home. Han has patiently waited for the time to return to his mother, now he has found it, Sirine only needed to wait and hope he returns