Heroic Epiphanies In Dave Egger's 'Zeitoun'

In the book A.D New Orleans After The Deluge, By Josh Neufeld is about Hurricane Katrina and how it affected the people of New Orleans. This book was about real people that escaped and lived through the storm. Most people lost everything including their houses, all personal belongings, and jobs. As I was reading the book was shocked that in the beginning most of the characters were not worried about the storm they just wanted to wait it out. No one was expecting such a big storm and thought it would turn east like they normally did.

In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Dave Eggers in his non-fiction book Zeitoun tells the story of Hurricane Katrina from the eyes of a Syrian-American family, the Zeitoun, who were living in New Orleans during the storm. Zeitoun, who is a father of four and a contractor, devoted his life for his hard work by serving the community of New Orleans. Zeitoun showed tremendous bravery during the Hurricane Katrina. He rescued many lives, including abandoned dogs at the time of the hurricane. The government response to the storm was very slow at that time and there was a lack of preparedness at all levels.

Zeitoun’s innocence is written and proven in the book entitled Zeitoun. Jamal’s innocence has yet to be legally released. Zeitoun was accused of looting in post-Katrina New Orleans. He was then transferred to a makeshift prison then to a prison in Baton

In part one of Zeitoun, Eggers establishes the daily lives of Zeitoun and his family in New Orleans. Eggers focuses mainly on the past and present of both Zeitoun and Kathy,

Kathy and their four children leave to a house in Baton Rouge. Zeitoun stays behind to keep an eye on the house and his business. Hard events unfold for Zeitoun because he faces prejudice and racism. That is the biggest disaster for him. What lead to the false imprisonment of

For example,on page 99 when Zeitoun heard an elderly woman crying for help after he finds her house,he dives into the water which is full of toxins in it,This shows how he would risk his own life in order to save another also when Zeitoun finds the pastor and his wife and he promised them that he would get them help,when he finds out they didn’t get it “Zeitoun w(ere) furious….. He’d made a promise to Alvin and Beulah Williams …..” his promise ha(ve)not been kept”.(137),This quote reveals that he strongly

To what extent do you agree with President Bush´s description of Hurricane Katrina as a natural disaster? In August 2005, over 1,700 people lost their lives as a result of Category 5 hurricane Katrina. The hurricane affected over 90,000 square miles in many of the Gulf Coast states, under which Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. (Hurricane Katrina).

The terrorist attacks on September 11 2001 were a sad day for our nation, yet it showed the vulnerabilities in the Americans emergency management system. President Jimmy Carter made a good effort with the creation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but as 9/11 proved FEMA was not equipped to management terrorist threats. The nation needed something fay beyond what FEMA could offer, which lead to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Historically, major disasters have always prompt change in the American culture take for example the attack on Pearl Harbor.

When Kathy doesn’t hear form Zeitoun in a while she knows something is wrong. Zeitoun and his friends are arrested in their home and are taken to a temporary prison where there police violate some of the rights citizens have. In Zeitoun, Eggers expresses the issue that citizens were not treated adequately after Hurricane Katrina due

Katrina did the normal thing she got married and started a family Katrina has almost no economic support. Katrina uses food stamps and has access to a discounted childcare facility. However in the documentary a situation arises where she is not able to us her food stamps and has to ration for about a week and ask her ex husband for help. Katrina is extremely fortunate to have access to the discounted childcare facility because it has a wait list upwards of one hundred kids.

Hurricane Matthew began to form itself from a tropical wave off the coast of Africa in late September. It has been calculated that 26 citizens have died as a result of Hurricane Matthew’s flooding. Robert Ray, the author of the CNN News article, ‘‘Hurricane Matthew: Days of disaster unfold under a cloudless sky,’’ wrote this to inform his audience of the monstrous damage that the hurricane has done from Florida to North Carolina, after it hit Haiti and other Caribbean countries. His audience is the family and love ones of the citizens that experienced the hurricane hit and those that are concerned of the terror the people went through and want to find more information in how to help. Ray’s use of appeal to pathos helps him effectively be able

Even without his control, the ideas that he had were able to extend politics and policy after his

It was 6:10 in the morning August 28 2005 and New Orleans had just been struck. Homes were being demolished, people were screaming, innocent people were getting killed from the result of the storm surge. . To this day there are 705 people still missing. While people are living there normal lives, they have not yet to know that in the middle of the Atlantic warm air is rising and it is getting replaced by the cooler air. the Not to forget, the hurricane affected their economy because of $81 billion dollars of property damage.

The reaction to Hurricane Katrina to me is shockingly similar to events that have happened both in the past and today in New Orleans. In the weeks after Katrina, the people of New Orleans were devastated by the death of family members, and the loss of their businesses, but eventually they began to rebuild the city just like they did after Hurricane Betsy. Since the construction of the levees

“Millions of lives were changed in a day by a cruel and wasteful storm” (George W. Bush). George W. Bush said this quote after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast. Hurricanes are deadly natural disasters that affect people every year. They have a very complex way of forming, and each storm is distinguished by its characteristics. After hurricanes, people and the environment are deeply harmed.