The Theme of the Crescent Crescent, a book by Diana Abu-Jaber, is about a cook at Nadia's Café named Sirine, a middle-aged Iraqi-American woman. Sirine lives with her uncle, a man who works at a local university and is an avid storyteller. Sirine's uncle meets a new professor, Hanif, at the university, and encourages Sirine to pursue him. Hanif, also called Han, is a brilliant Iraqi man, but he is also a man with deep secrets and scars from his past. The two begin a romantic relationship, but all too soon, things within the relationship begin to fall apart. There are speculations of cheating, outright cheating and lack of trust starting to come between Sirine and Han. Eventually Han returns to his home in Iraq because he feels the need to see his mother, Sirine is heartbroken by this. Sirine believes she has done it“Every time she does this, she tells herself, it's the last time. It is not a career for a young man” (Abu-Jaber 39). Abdelrahman has a bad habit of selling himself into slavery and then swimming away from his owner. He only does it for the money; he wants more from life than this. As the story progresses we discover that he wants to become an actor. He manages to sell himself into slavery and travels to "Hal'Awud", commonly known as Hollywood. Abdelrahman finally gets to a place where he can make his dreams come true, but it wasn't that simple. He continually runs into challenges and isn't as big a star as he had hoped. I think this portrays the theme because he had hope for his dreams and was patient enough to achieve them. He didn't give up on his goal even when he felt like he wasn't making any progress. His perseverance eventually took him to Egypt where he was reunited with his family. Abdelrahman was not the only patient character in the tale; his mother and the mermaid are also a good example of this