Sample Book Report Of Zeitoun

I believe that the book Zeitoun can be somewhat factual yet there are many parts in the book that can be misleading. The description Zeitoun gives us about FEMA and Homeland Security gives us the feeling of sorrow that they, and other U.S. citizens, discriminate the Muslim people after 4 years past when the horrific events of 9/11 happened. Not only does it happen to Zeitoun, but when Kathy talks about the time a teenager tried pulling off her hijab as a joke, “A girl of about fifteen was crouched behind Kath, her arm raised, about to yank the hijab off Kathy’s head” (Eggers 46). There’s also the time when Zeitoun is captured by the soldiers as Eggers gives us vivid details about what happened, “Two men in bulletproof vests leapt on Zeitoun, tackling him to the ground” (Eggers 208). So throughout the book, here and there are parts of where there are multiple accounts of discrimination and racism. With these included, and with some bias, it creates empathy for us readers as we read the book. It creates and changes our bias towards the events of Hurricane Katrina and what it took to stay alive.
To start off, in the beginning when he talks about Zeitoun and how he fished when he was a teenager, “Abdulrahman Zeitoun was only thirteen when he began fishing for sardines this way, a method called lampara, borrowed from the Italians. He had waited years to join the men and teenagers on the night boats, and he’d spent those years asking questions… You’ve never seen anything like this” (Eggers 3-4). Like when he talks about the method lampara for fishing, he sort of expresses his opinion about the Italians by saying how it was borrowed from them just by using