A Thousand Splendid Suns
An action will deal with any circumstance. However, the situations one has been in, and the challenges one has experienced determine that action. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the protagonist, Mariam, has to face many hardships in the city of Kabul. She learns how to endure her real life situations. It takes friendship, strength, and sacrifice in order to endure life.
In order for a person to endure a challenge, that person needs to have strong friendships. Over time, Mariam and her husband’s second wife Laila become extremely close friends, to an extent where the reader can consider them sisters. When Rasheed, Mariam’s husband, barges into Mariam’s room and makes the announcement that he will beat her, Mariam becomes afraid to the point where she shivers with fright. Rasheed believes that it was Mariam’s fault that Laila hasn’t been listening to him lately, therefore, he wants to beat Mariam. Before he is able to strike Mariam with the belt, Laila attempts to stop him: “The girl lunged at him. she grabbed his arm with both hands and tried to drag him down, but she could do no …show more content…
Her mother 's death was a sacrifice that needed to be made in order for Mariam to learn how to endure. Mariam endures her mother’s death and many more difficulties in her life. Mariam learned how to persevere through a sacrifice, and so did Laila. For instance, when Tariq, Laila’s best friend, was moving with his parents to Pakistan, Laila was devastated. This was the worst thing that had ever happened to her. When Tariq was leaving, she says she felt “her own heart thudding in her belly, her eyes, her bones.” (Hosseini 185) This separation from Tariq is what taught her how to endure; if she can endure the love of her life leaving, then she can endure anything. The separation was a sacrifice that needed to occur. Laila learned how to overcome the obstacles that were in her future because of her
An action will deal with any circumstance. However, the situations one has been in, and the challenges one has experienced determine that action. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the protagonist, Mariam, has to face many hardships in the city of Kabul. She learns how to endure her real life situations. It takes friendship, strength, and sacrifice in order to endure life.
In order for a person to endure a challenge, that person needs to have strong friendships. Over time, Mariam and her husband’s second wife Laila become extremely close friends, to an extent where the reader can consider them sisters. When Rasheed, Mariam’s husband, barges into Mariam’s room and makes the announcement that he will beat her, Mariam becomes afraid to the point where she shivers with fright. Rasheed believes that it was Mariam’s fault that Laila hasn’t been listening to him lately, therefore, he wants to beat Mariam. Before he is able to strike Mariam with the belt, Laila attempts to stop him: “The girl lunged at him. she grabbed his arm with both hands and tried to drag him down, but she could do no …show more content…
Her mother 's death was a sacrifice that needed to be made in order for Mariam to learn how to endure. Mariam endures her mother’s death and many more difficulties in her life. Mariam learned how to persevere through a sacrifice, and so did Laila. For instance, when Tariq, Laila’s best friend, was moving with his parents to Pakistan, Laila was devastated. This was the worst thing that had ever happened to her. When Tariq was leaving, she says she felt “her own heart thudding in her belly, her eyes, her bones.” (Hosseini 185) This separation from Tariq is what taught her how to endure; if she can endure the love of her life leaving, then she can endure anything. The separation was a sacrifice that needed to occur. Laila learned how to overcome the obstacles that were in her future because of her