In-Class Zeitoun Blog

In the book, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Zeitoun stays behind when the storm was arriving. His wife and children left him because they know he is a stubborn man and would do what he says. Zeitoun stays back to tend his business by protecting his tools and other houses he has been working on. Later on in the book, after Hurricane Katrina passes, he paddles with his canoe helping any stranded survivors. At one point, he helps a very old woman who didn't know how to swim. As Zeitoun speaks with his wife Kathy on the phone, Kathy wants him to leave the hurricane site, but he says " I feel like I'm supposed to be here, its Gods will" (Eggers 124). As this is said, it can be added that Zeitoun's personality changes in a religiously destined type of perspective. He believes that there was a reason he is participating in that situation at that particular moment. I believe this is important because if Zeitoun wasn't to believe in "God's will" or destiny, the situation he is in now would have been changed dramatically. He most likely would have vacated that area to meet up his wife and kids instead of thinking he belongs there at that moment.