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• Hurricane Katrina
• Dave Eggers
• Motifs & Themes
Dave Eggers
Memoir: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Short Fiction: How We Are Hungry
Creative Nonfiction “Novel”: What is the What
Nonfiction: Zeitoun
Hurricane Katrina
• August 2005• 1,836 Dead, 135
Missing• 100,000 People
remained in the city
• 20,000 in the Superdome
• Levees broke after much of the storm had passed, flooding 80% of New Orleans
• Temporary triage, jails, and shelter
Themes and Motifs:• Egger’s particular style of prose, use of
five senses• Description of setting, sound of the water,
shift in the city• Idea of the American dream to a Muslim
immigrant• Political leanings in the text? What
“American rights” come to mind?• Occupying the voice of Abdulrahman• Structure of the plot
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