It brought forth a vague memory of a storm on Arwad Island, when he was just a boy, when the Mediterranean rose up and swallowed the lower-sitting homes, the blue-green sea sitting inside living rooms and bedrooms and kitchens. The water breached and dodged the Phoenician stones surrounding the island without any difficulty at all. Why does the author include this flashback

Read the excerpt from part 2 of Zeitoun.

It brought forth a vague memory of a storm on Arwad Island, when he was just a boy, when the Mediterranean rose up and swallowed the lower-sitting homes, the blue-green sea sitting inside living rooms and bedrooms and kitchens. The water breached and dodged the Phoenician stones surrounding the island without any difficulty at all.

Why does the author include this flashback?

to present various images of nature’s strength throughout history

to prove Zeitoun’s good fortune and his ability to overcome adversity

to emphasize the social differences between Eastern and Western cultures

to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature

to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature

Explanation:

The story is about a boy named Zeitoun who grew up in the coastal town of Jableh, in Syria. His father was a ship's captain of which he and his brother also want to be sailors.

There is a great storm that happens when he is much older which evokes the memory of the island where he was born which depicts his birth town and to show that his foreign birth was universal to his struggles against nature.

a omg *hides wit stranger*