From what I have been reading so far in the book, I get the constant feeling of Zeitoun and his family being warned to leave. Constantly his brother Ahmad is saying how Zeitoun should leave just to be safe. And Kathy is constantly watching the news for more information about the hurricane Katrina. Constantly there is a sense of warning and urgency. However they ignore all the signs. Zeitoun just believes that it is nothing that he needs to be concerned about and how it will pass like before. He doesn't even too much pay attention to the warning from his brother and the news. It's ironic because he should know better because his father, his brother, and even himself have dealt with working in the working and the conditions of a storm. "Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain." (Eggers 7). This is another example of how the dangers of the storm was ignored. Kathy had become desensitized to the dangers and warnings of a hurricane that it didn't her when she heard another was coming. There is a constant tone to me that these characters knew better about the dangers of a storm and they simply ignored it.
This is an interesting point. I think it is also interesting to note how even Kathy does start to become aware of the danger of the storm, Zeitoun still refuses to listen to the wisdom of his wife.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this point never stuck out to me that much, but you do have a great argument. Now that you have said this, I almost feel like Dave Eggers is using all of those warnings to build up the intensity to a bigger point/meaning. I can’t wait to find out what happens!
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