Because his father wasn't much of a dad and his mom died. He was on the streets at age 10, bragging about the fact that he got arrested for the 1st time, and he got arrested a lot after that. He couldn't seem to find his way and didn't like his life. He broke law just because he wanted to show that "he didn't care if there was a law or not."
I think the answer is feeling but are there any multiple choice options?
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.
