A Critical Analysis Of Hippopotamus By Eritan

certain actions or thoughts in a justifiable way. Eitan describes the necessity of his lie akin to how the "pilot of a Boeing 747 steers the plane away from any obstacles on the runway during takeoff." These oddly specific and vivid similes provide a type of context to the story and characters inner thoughts that make their motivations easier to understand while adding flavor to the story.
Besides just the similes, the use of a wide variety of sentence structures heightens the tension and pace of the reader tenfold. Describing the "hippopotamus" of a lie, Gundar-Goshen says that it is "Huge. Almost monstrous." This could have easily been two separate sentences, but the addition of the period forces the reader to stop. And in that, it makes

What it means to be wealthy. What it means to be white in a mixed society. And most importantly what it means to be biased, unable to view something in an objective manner.
Eitan is initially portrayed as a loving family man with an extremely respectable career. He is someone to be respected, who holds a significant place in society, and thinks highly of himself. He is truly the last one for anyone to suspect for the crime. From the police to the detectives to himself, claiming that he committed the hit-and-run is unthinkable—he has the privilege and power to back himself up.
After being exposed about lying multiple times, the worst thing Liat can believe Eitan has done is have an affair. She never once even considers he is the man she is looking for on her own crime case.
Within the first few chapters, the police arrest a young, racially mixed teenager as the main suspect. He even confesses to the crime under immense pressure, and the detective chief considers the case closed. Only under careful scrutiny and help from Liat is he eventually actually

Instead of directly forcing its readers to see the inequalities that exist, it makes us discover them ourselves. No one is able to truly treat everyone equally—no matter how hard we try. As individual humans, we all have biases imprinted upon us borne from experiences growing up. The collective power of these biases is enough to shape an entire society and change the way we judge the value of people and their right to be treated equally. Eitan Green is able to come away clean from a horrendous crime simply because of the inherent privilege granted to him within his own Israeli culture. The society he lives in, at this point in our history, can not look at someone like him objectively. Due to Eitan 's race—and derived from that his money and status—he is granted an immunity. An immunity no Eritrean man, gasping for breath in the dust of Beersheba, can feel as his assaulter shifts his SUV into drive and flees the