If you were in a life or death situation, and everything that could go wrong seemed to go wrong, what would you do? In Zeitoun, a loving husband and wife get separated in one of our nation’s most horrific natural disasters. The challenges they faced highlight the difficulties and traumatic effects expressed through the loss of humanity and dignity. Kathy’s journey through the book made a stronger impression on me than her husband’s. In the wake of her traumatic experiences, such as memory loss, depression, and the perceived loss of her husband, she loses her dignity as well. Towards the end of the book, we learn that “she began to have stomach problems,” was “[growing] clumsier...as if struck by vertigo.”(Eggers 300-301) Kathy
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Once Abdulrahman experienced pain on his sides at the prison of Hunt, he dejects his humanity. At the prison of Hunt, he observes “the stabbing pain in his side, which Zeitoun had first felt at Greyhound, had now amplified tenfold, it felt like a long screw was being twisted slowly into his kidney. It was difficult to sit, stand, to lay down.”(Eggers 249) The author was emphasizing the pain Abdulrahman felt productively to show how much he was suffering without any medical relief. Kathy was so stressed out when she was trying to convince her husband to leave the city. Because there was a hurricane, people from all over the world coming to evacuate the city started to become insane, “I really want you to leave,” she [alerted]. “The news coming out of the city, It’s so bad. There’s looting, killing. Something bad is going to happen to you.”(Eggers 124) It was a challenge for Kathy to cool her meltdown because she kept on persuading her husband to leave the city, so he would not die. However, I would not recommend reading this book because the author’s overuse of flashbacks takes away from the overall story and minimizes the natural suspense in Zeitoun’s story of survival. In researching Zeitoun’s story online, I discovered that he got arrested in prison for trying to suffocate his wife. He blamed her for all of the house problems, such as water, electricity, and plumbing, which were messed up. This was not what I expected it to be. Because it is a nonfiction book, I was expecting for the story to be truthful instead of glorifying him as a
Once Abdulrahman experienced pain on his sides at the prison of Hunt, he dejects his humanity. At the prison of Hunt, he observes “the stabbing pain in his side, which Zeitoun had first felt at Greyhound, had now amplified tenfold, it felt like a long screw was being twisted slowly into his kidney. It was difficult to sit, stand, to lay down.”(Eggers 249) The author was emphasizing the pain Abdulrahman felt productively to show how much he was suffering without any medical relief. Kathy was so stressed out when she was trying to convince her husband to leave the city. Because there was a hurricane, people from all over the world coming to evacuate the city started to become insane, “I really want you to leave,” she [alerted]. “The news coming out of the city, It’s so bad. There’s looting, killing. Something bad is going to happen to you.”(Eggers 124) It was a challenge for Kathy to cool her meltdown because she kept on persuading her husband to leave the city, so he would not die. However, I would not recommend reading this book because the author’s overuse of flashbacks takes away from the overall story and minimizes the natural suspense in Zeitoun’s story of survival. In researching Zeitoun’s story online, I discovered that he got arrested in prison for trying to suffocate his wife. He blamed her for all of the house problems, such as water, electricity, and plumbing, which were messed up. This was not what I expected it to be. Because it is a nonfiction book, I was expecting for the story to be truthful instead of glorifying him as a