In Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai, Fadi reaches his boiling point when he realizes it wasn’t his fault that Mariam got lost. Fadi feels guilty throughout the book that it was his fault his little sister Mariam got lost because of him; in this scene he tells his art teacher, Ms. Bethune about it. In the chapter before, Fadi figured out that he didn't win the photo contest (which was his chance to win a trip to India, and attempt to save his sister who is lost in India's neighboring country, Pakistan), and he reacted in a bad way. So, Fadi came to Ms.Bethune to apologize for his bad reaction, and explain why it was so important he won that contest.
Ms.Bethune tells Fadi, “It wasn’t your fault that poor Mariam was lost.” ...
Ms. Bethune says, “Look, honey, bad things happen to good people. And you were in a bad, bad situation. What if you had stopped to put that darn Barbie in your bag and both of you had been left behind.”
“Oh,” said Fadi. I hadn’t thought of it that way.(page 237)
Fadi’s biggest pressure throughout the book is that it was his fault Mariam got lost and here he realizes things could’ve been worse, and it wasn’t all his fault. After this, Fadi starts to feel more positive and doesn’t worry about it being his fault as much. This scene also clearly changes the way Fadi thinks about it, which he wasn’t able to do over the entire book. Fadi also told his family about how he thought it was his fault Mariam got lost, which he had been avoiding the whole book. A theme this leads to is to always have hope because Fadi felt so hopeless and bad about what happened, but he realized that he needed to have hope. Fadi also learned not to blame himself and put so much pressure on himself, even during tough times. At the end of the book, he came clean to his family, and didn’t feel very pressured.
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