Since media res starts right in the middle of the action, it captures the reader’s attention immediately.
Answer:
At first Bayoumi is very kind to Firdaus, but he starts to get violent, mean, angry and abusive when she says she wants to work. His extremely aggressive behavior causes her to flee and abandon him.
Explanation:
Although you did not say in the question above, Firdaus and Bayoumi are characters from the book "Woman at Point Zero" written by Nawal El Saadawi where the story of women who had a very difficult life and were involved in situations that led them to be arrested.
In this book, we meet Firdaus, a woman who sees all her aspirations shattered because of the sexist and oppressive world in which she lives. Firdaus lives a very difficult life, when she meets Bayoumi, the owner of a cafeteria that is very kind to her and that makes her very comfortable. Unfortunately, this gentle behavior does not last long, as the moment Firdaus says she wants to work, Bayoumi is furious. He shows himself to be an aggressive and busive man and causes several problems to Firdaus, who ends up running away.
Answer:
In the opening Prologue of Romeo and Juliet, the Chorus refers to the title characters as “star-crossed lovers,” an allusion to the belief that stars and planets have the power to control events on Earth. This line leads many readers to believe that Romeo and Juliet are inescapably destined to fall in love and equally destined to have that love destroyed. However, though Shakespeare’s play raises the possibility that some impersonal, supernatural force shapes Romeo and Juliet’s lives, by the end of the play it becomes clear that the characters bear more of the responsibility than Fortune does.
Explanation:
This line leads many readers to believe that Romeo and Juliet are inescapably destined to fall in love and equally destined to have that love destroyed. This is the main part of the story.