Rawi Hage

The book “Cockroach” by Rawi Hage is a dramatic story which talks about a man who is not sure in his identity. This book conveys that the protagonist is a special character because he isn’t able to differ Love and Sexual attraction, nor can he differ from what is bad or good, nor he isn’t quite sure that he is a human being. He is an exceptional, unique and even in some way an inimitable person. This essay will help you to understand why and how he is a special character.
Firstly, the protagonist already is considered special when he thinks he is a cockroach. The impotent rage leads him to think that. When he goes to see a therapist, he says to her that it is his sister that made him think that he could be a cockroach. We can better comprehend
He steals all the time. Since he was a kid, he started to steal back in his hometown in Iran. He steels because even though he has a bad reputation. A reputation of a thief that draws no one to trusts him. For example, when Matild tells him:” Everyone was saying that it was you who was stealing the toilet paperzz.” () in this quote we can observe that theft for him is normal. Because such presumption is wrong, it makes him an exceptional person. In the book we can read that he steals everything from money to toilet paper. For him it is like an amusement. The protagonist does not only steal from his friend Reza, but also from his therapist. In the book, he goes into Reza’s house and starts to look for money, hash, food and coke. Basically he grabs everything he sees. In the book, the protagonist goes into his therapist’s office and steals her notes. In fact the author uses irony to demonstrate his theft. The irony is in his action of stealing something that is helpful for him. He doesn’t differ well and bad, he acts like a child who never learned good manners. Therefore, it makes him very special and deferrable from other people of his