Zeitoun Lesson Plan

What role do the memories of Zeitoun's childhood play in Part I? How does Zeitoun's family history affect how he responds to the approaching storm?

Zeitoun frequently reflects on this childhood in Syria and his various family members. Perhaps most significantly, these reflections often focus on his family's relationship with water and the sea: his father almost died while working on a boat and thus forbade his children from following a similar career. But they, too, felt a connection with open waters. Zeitoun remembers for sardines and is in close contact with his brother Ahmad, who is a sailor. Whenever Kathy asks him to leave the city with her during a storm, he does...