Answer: Time progresses chronologically with one flashback and a return to the original time.
Explanation:
In the first part, Zeitoun is thinking of the canoe (present time), this leads to a memory of the time the canoe was stolen from the Claiborne house, he and Kathy noticed it when he was released from prison (flashback), then he thinks on how all the stolen things were replaced except for the canoe and he misses it (return to the present), finally he keeps thinking about if he should get a new canoe and if his family would like it (still present).
C. And to offset his good looks, the G-H men requires that he wears at all times a rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved :)
The leg fell off the chair symbolizing the empire falling, or a plot commencing action.<span />
