Zeitoun Pg 79-91

This page starts with Kathy waking up and noticing the storm has turned into a category 5 storm and is headed directly towards New Orleans. All of Kathy and Zeitouns clients called them and asked them to board up their windows of the sites they were working on. In Baton Rouge the children played games, watched movies, and talked while the strong winds and storms were going on around them. At home Zeitoun boarded up his own property and got ready for all the leaks that the house would acquire. Just after 11 o'clock the storm arrived and it wasn't that strong at first then the leaks started The next day he pulls a canoe he bought and ties it up thinking he might need it later. A flashback occurs of where he talks about how he tried to get his daughters interested It rained and flooded a lot but the drainage system would take care of that. Kathy tried to get Zeitoun to come to Baton Rouge but insisted that he had to stay there to take care of their belongings. Kathy and her family being followers of Islam do not eat pork and when her children are fed pork for dinner she could easily gotten angry but she realized that if eating pork was the only thing to eat they would have to in these hard conditions. On August 30th Zeitoun wakes up and sits there for a while and realizes there is nothing to do. This is the first time he has has nothing to do in a long while. His thoughts stray and he gets into a mid sleep and has a flashback about his older brother who was a great swimmer but died in a car crash in Egypt. The chapter ends with his hearing water and he awakens
My response on this is that THE HURRICANE IS FINALLY HERE! Not that it is a good thing that happened but it has been anticipated through out the first 80 pages and now that it is here it feels like a lot more is going to be happening. I feel like when they talk about their job and the painting business the reader gets all the stress that they are acquiring. Now that the hurricane is here I feel like you get more stress becasue the reader worries about the whole city of New Orleans as well as the fate of the family of the Zeitouns. I also worry about Zeitoun because he is all alone and his city is going through a huge hurricane. I keep wondering what is going to happen next and I want to keep reading more. This is just of the beginning of the hurricane too more is to come and more destruction is going to arrive all he can do is wait. Also I feel like Kathy is not a strict follower of Islam as Zeitoun is. This is shown because the lets her children and her eat pork. I dont know much about Islam but I guess you are not aloud to eat pork as stated in the book and she could of easily gotten angry that her family fed her this food, but she didn't. This is my response to what I have read so far.