The answer is C) cause and effect because if it explores the relationship between and action and it's consequences you would be talking about a cause and then it's effect of what happened.
The answer is: to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature
Zeitoun grown up in a coastal town, Jableh, in Syria, his father was a ship captain and when he and his brother drown to be sailor as well, after many year in the sea he stablishes in New Orleans, in the story is describes the great storm that evokes his memory of the island, this shows Zeitoun birth town and also that the nature forces universality.
