A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Story of Perseverance What if your survival depended on the strength of your courage? The novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Houssini bounces back and forth from the perspectives of two Afghani women who struggle with hardships and how they overcome them together. Through the narratives of both women, the novel shows the theme of perseverance through the characters’ determination to overcome their struggles. At the beginning of the book, the main focus is on Mariam. Mariam had gone through a lot in her life and was still able to have a somewhat happy ending. She grew up with her parent’s not being good to her and this stuck with her in the long run. One example of this is, “And don’t let him charm you”. He betrayed us, your beloved father.
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Then her father married her, off the first chance he got to an awful man named Rasheed. “Her questions seemed to irritate him, (housinni 94)” Not only would he abuse her verbally but also physically. After enduring all of that and is about to be executed she’s happy and grateful because she might not’ve had the best life but she was finally able to make her own decisions for once and got to experience true love through Laila and her kids.. Laila persevered the loss of so many people + Raheed but in the end, she escaped it all and made a life for herself. Once Laila was present, the perspective started switching back and forth between her and Mariam. Through this, we saw that she had a pretty good childhood, especially compared to Mariam’s. But it all came crashing down because everyone she loved had left her. The boy she liked fled Afghanistan, her friends were dead, and now her parents were too. “I shouldn’t even be here, she said one day, (housinni
Then her father married her, off the first chance he got to an awful man named Rasheed. “Her questions seemed to irritate him, (housinni 94)” Not only would he abuse her verbally but also physically. After enduring all of that and is about to be executed she’s happy and grateful because she might not’ve had the best life but she was finally able to make her own decisions for once and got to experience true love through Laila and her kids.. Laila persevered the loss of so many people + Raheed but in the end, she escaped it all and made a life for herself. Once Laila was present, the perspective started switching back and forth between her and Mariam. Through this, we saw that she had a pretty good childhood, especially compared to Mariam’s. But it all came crashing down because everyone she loved had left her. The boy she liked fled Afghanistan, her friends were dead, and now her parents were too. “I shouldn’t even be here, she said one day, (housinni