Zeitoun Reading Response 11/29

Zeitoun Reading Response 11/29

“She finds herself wondering early in the morning and late at night and sometimes just while sitting with little Ahmed sleeping on her lap: Did all that really happen? Did it happen in the United States? To us? It could have been avoided, she thinks. So many little things could have been done. So many people let it happen. So many looked away. And it only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.” (Eggers, 319)

This quote particularly stands out to be because I find it unique how Kathy’s after thoughts of the disaster and everything that happen to her family are so similar to how most people would think, not only if they were in her shoes, but to most bad situations that occur in one’s life. We always think that it could have somehow been avoided, and are still in shock that it happened to us. However, what is extremely unfortunate is that it happened all around the time of her sons birth, where many usually experience happy feelings and moments of remembrance. Kathy will always associate the birth of her son to this traumatic event that has occurred to her family, husband, and home. It is interesting to see the thoughts that  Kathy’s feeling and how she believes that it was unfair, when her husband was really the one to experience most of it and he still continued to have a positive outlook on life throughout his time in the jail.