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Zeitoun By Dave Eggers

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The book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is not a completely accurate depiction of what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The book is an example of propaganda aimed at influencing the reader into viewing the government and police in America as ineffective and ignorant.
In Zeitoun, Eggers characterizes all the police and National Guard members in New Orleans after Katrina as very abusive and ignorant. When Zeitoun is arrested the police take his and his friends belongings to examine them. The police view the evidence, a bag of cash, a map and a memory chip, and Eggers states that, "The authorities were viewing something more."(214) This paints the police as racist because they view the evidence and make the assumption that because Zeitoun is from the Middle East he is a terrorist. Members of the National Guard and police officers make remarks such as, "You guys are al Qaeda" (Eggers 212) and "You guys are terrorists. You're Taliban" (Eggers 222) to further …show more content…

His family makes comments to Kathy like, “How can you live in that country?” and “You need to move back here. Syria is so much safer.” (Eggers 182) This reveals that his family thinks that America is not safe for Zeitoun. Eggers uses these comments to imply that the United States is not safe for people from the Middle East because they will be racially profiled. Another example of Zeitouns families bias against the United States is when they find out he has been arrested and is not dead. Instead of celebrating like Kathy, his family is very concerned about Zeitoun. His brother tells Kathy, "You have to see him" and his tone makes it seem that he was "almost as worried by Zeitouns incarceration as he had been by his disappearance." (Eggers 272) He is so worried because he thinks he will be racially profiled and put kept in jail because they think he is a

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