Rating: (62.4K votes) “Be strong, be brave, be true. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. She could feel his shoulder blades, his ribs. She had never seen this in him. It can be. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our, Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Vintage edition of. Endure.” ... “But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. What assumptions are made about Zeitoun and the other three men (275–87)? Kathy’s son from her first marriage, Zachary, is already there. When he himself is imprisoned, he objects the most to procedures which dehumanize him and efface his dignity, such as the strip searches and being served pork, which is forbidden in Islam. She’d pictured deserts, donkeys, and carts—not so many busy, cosmopolitan cities, not so many Mercedes and BMW dealerships lining the highway heading north, not so many women in tight clothes and uncovered hair ... She’d assumed Syria was entirely Muslim, but she was wrong about this, and about so many things.” (192).

We see destroyed houses and neighborhoods. chapter, Until this point, Zeitoun had not been charged with a crime. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. Kathy continues to beg Zeitoun to leave the city, but by this point, Zeitoun has found a sense of purpose. Part I: Saturday, August 27––Tuesday, August 30, Part II: Tuesday, August 30––Thursday, September 1, Part II: Friday, September 2––Tuesday, September 6, Part III: Wednesday, September 7--Monday, September 19, Part IV: Tuesday, September 6--Thursday, September 29, Perspective Complicating Human Interaction in Zeitoun and The Laramie Project. His sister often used to eat at the Zeitouns’, since she loved, Meanwhile, Yuko’s husband Ahmaad arrives in Houston to drive, ...each been killed, shot in the head. Instant downloads of all 1350 LitChart PDFs She needed to find him and bury him. Eggers acknowledged in an interview that one of the purposes of the book was to combat Islamophobia by showing Americans that Muslims are "average people" just like themselves (Whitman). She had married a bullheaded man, a sometimes ridiculously stubborn man. She had married a bullheaded man, a sometimes ridiculously stubborn man. Part 2: Wednesday August 31 Quotes But there was the canoe. Teachers and parents! Straightforward acknowledged and sat on the patio steps while Zeitoun headed inside” . Zeitoun hears news from Kathy about how the city is supposed to be violent and lawless, with murders, rapes, and rampaging gangs.

Zeitoun passed. Kathy fell apart.

The barrel itself was rotten. At one point, Zeitoun sees a news helicopter photographing a floating body but not stopping to see if the man is alive or needs help. and theme. This plays a key part in the entire story. She pulled back, and his eyes were the same—green, long-lashed, touched with honey—but they were tired, defeated.