Herat

Love is the feeling of a sincere compassion towards someone or something. Long, meaningful hugs and the shed of heartfelt tears- feelings of deep affection such as these were significantly portrayed amongst characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Love causes sacrifices to be made, creates emotional connections and sometimes causes people to get hurt. Whether it is expected of a person or not, love can cause people to make sacrifices. In the novel, the author characterized Laila as being bold…

Thousand Splendid Suns Book Talk A Thousand Splendid Suns, the second realistic fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini takes place in Afghanistan from the year 1974, to the year 2003. In this novel, the reader follows Mariam and Laila’s journey growing up and dealing with the hardships, while learning about the Afghan’s way of life and culture. And you accompany Laila and Mariam through their lives together. Mariam is nearly two decades older than Laila, Laila grew up in a loving family in…

reason (iʿtibār aqliyya) which does not exist (laysa bi-mawjūdin) in the extra-mental, concrete world. This view, however, was rejected by the fifteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi master in the Akbarian tradition, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (d. 1492) of Herat in his Treatise on Existence. In this short essay, I begin by trying to unpack Suhrawardī’s complicated argument concerning wujūd as a being of reason in his aforementioned work, and then explain how Jāmī argued to the contrary to…

Afghanistan is a nation composed of many societies, throughout these we find common values and topics of interest. Among these are health care, education, and basic aspects of social life. In general, these are some of the most usual parts inside of a society in any country. Yet like others, Afghan culture, landscape, and political disputes create a specific and unique society for their country. A nation built by almost thirty one million people, united by their daily activities and similarities…

Splendid Suns teaches readers about the formation of a good character and how it reveals itself, how it develops, and how it is put to the test. As the novel begins, readers are introduced to a young girl named Mariam. Living in the small village of Herat with a strict and stubborn mother, she is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy business man. As a child, Mariam lacks confidence and does not have much hope for the…

The word Taliban means “student.” Taliban became known as student because many of the members were students from the religious seminaries. The Soviet Union was the cause of the Taliban. The S.U was attacking many counties and they started the attack Afghanistan to get help with wars and to have a place to stay. A group of men did not like what they were doing so they wanted to gather more people and attack. After they got enough people they started to attack and chase them out (Mehra, 2014). The…

After the removal of the Taliban in 2001, many improvements began to rise for women, although women inequality was still evident. Enrollment for girl’s education in 2002 rose thirty percent and women could now go to work with the permission of male relatives (“Life as an Afghan Woman”). “Life as an Afghan Woman” states about infant and child mortality that “Fewer children die before age five. Child mortality has been decreased by half! Though the rate is still high, improvements in access to…

Parents are the most important people in one’s life, they teach those manners, values and culture. Some will be caring and loving; others will be ignorant and careless. The characters Laila and Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini have about the same relationship with their parents, both very dearly love and respect their father and are both looking for their mothers’ attention. Laila has a close relationship with her father, who wants nothing but the best education for her…

not being able to make things right with his daughter after all the harm and wrong things he has done to her in her life. To begin, Jalil, a movie theater owner, was a wealthy man with 2 wives and 10 kids who lives comfortably in a nearby city of Herat. Jalil would go visit Mariam every Thursday because they did not live together. Mariam lived with her mother, Nana, in a small…

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