House of Sand and Fog Essays -- essays research papers

I read House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. This story is integrity of classic tragedy which also contains a nearly unbearable amount of suspense. It tells a story of the conflict between people of different races who have an unfitness to understand each other. They each want possession of a small house in the California hills but for very different reasons. On adept side, there is Kathy Nicolo and Sheriff Lester Burdon who want the house from which Kathy was evicted. It previously belonged to Kathys father and she is reluctant to relinquish possession of it. Then there is the Behranis, a Persian family who was forced to aviate to America in fear of their lives. They want the house because it symbolizes their rise from poverty (they had to leave everything behind and were quite poor when they arrived in the United States) back to impressiveness which, to this family, will help to restore their familys dignity, lost when thrust into poverty. The story centers on gaining pos session of the house. Unknowingly, all of these characters are doomed to tragedy by their inability to understand each other, hurtling down an explosive collision course.The main characters in this story are Sheriff Lester Burdon, Kathy Nicolo, Massoud Amir Behrani, Mrs. Behrani, and their son, Esmail Behrani. Lester has a very soft spot in his heart for battered and abandoned women, an outlook that Burdon attributes to his fathers having left his mothe...