Fear, love, and hope sum up the beginning two parts of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The author takes readers on a journey with a young girl no older than 14. Readers watch as she grows as a person and is forced to face unfathomable truths. From early on in life she has to make a decision on who to believe: Nana, her mother, or Jalil, her father. Nana simply doesn’t believe in Jalil and his way of life as a rich man with many wives who segregates one of his daughters far from his home. The young girl, Mariam, is under the impression that Jalil is the world’s best dad, until he forgets, or harshly decides, to leave her waiting on her fifteenth birthday when the two were scheduled to see a movie in his cinema. Mariam rashly decides
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Jalil sits at the window and observes her as she silently begs for his attention. His only action in response to her is to close the curtains and order his driver to bring Mariam home. In all this commotion Mariam’s mother decided suicide was the answer to her problems and in this thinking she hanged herself. Unfortunately, Mariam is forced to live with Jalil and his other family. Quickly a marriage is arranged for Mariam and a man name Rasheed. In the beginning Rasheed is perfect until Mariam begins having miscarriages. Rasheed grows angry and Mariam grows scared. In this journal I will be connecting, evaluating, and predicting. The author makes it easy for two worlds to connect. Obviously in a small town in Minnesota, arranged marriages and mothers killing themselves, doesn’t happen often. However, with the small …show more content…
The biggest one in the beginning is Mariam at her father’s house. From the start of the book Mariam seems to love her father. She looks up to him and believes every word he utters. A small amount of the same love comes from Jalil as well. It makes it hard to believe when Jalil refuses to see her on her birthday. One would think this duo would spend all day together. Because of this disappointment I predict Mariam is going to cut her family off. I predict a truth is coming in Mariam’s near future and Jalil will have no part in her life afterwards. At the end of the book I predict Jalil passes away and leaves Mariam to ponder if she made the right decision. Furthering my predictions, the relationship between Mariam and Rasheed, her husband, is not going well. Six miscarriages and one baby girl later, Rasheed is furious. In fact Rasheed is irritated about everything; Mariam cannot seem to do one thing right. On a quiet evening Mariam gets abused for not cooking the rice to Rasheed’s liking:”’ What’s the matter?’ he mewled, mimicking her.’ Whats the matter is you’ve done it again.’ ‘ But I boiled it for five minutes more than usual’ [Mariam] ‘ That’s a bold lie” (Hosseini103). Mariam’s cooking had never been a problem before though. He calls Mariam out on a lie that he has no proof, then makes her eat rocks. Rasheed is growing arrogant. For this reasoning I predict Rasheed will become too abusive and after nights from
Jalil sits at the window and observes her as she silently begs for his attention. His only action in response to her is to close the curtains and order his driver to bring Mariam home. In all this commotion Mariam’s mother decided suicide was the answer to her problems and in this thinking she hanged herself. Unfortunately, Mariam is forced to live with Jalil and his other family. Quickly a marriage is arranged for Mariam and a man name Rasheed. In the beginning Rasheed is perfect until Mariam begins having miscarriages. Rasheed grows angry and Mariam grows scared. In this journal I will be connecting, evaluating, and predicting. The author makes it easy for two worlds to connect. Obviously in a small town in Minnesota, arranged marriages and mothers killing themselves, doesn’t happen often. However, with the small …show more content…
The biggest one in the beginning is Mariam at her father’s house. From the start of the book Mariam seems to love her father. She looks up to him and believes every word he utters. A small amount of the same love comes from Jalil as well. It makes it hard to believe when Jalil refuses to see her on her birthday. One would think this duo would spend all day together. Because of this disappointment I predict Mariam is going to cut her family off. I predict a truth is coming in Mariam’s near future and Jalil will have no part in her life afterwards. At the end of the book I predict Jalil passes away and leaves Mariam to ponder if she made the right decision. Furthering my predictions, the relationship between Mariam and Rasheed, her husband, is not going well. Six miscarriages and one baby girl later, Rasheed is furious. In fact Rasheed is irritated about everything; Mariam cannot seem to do one thing right. On a quiet evening Mariam gets abused for not cooking the rice to Rasheed’s liking:”’ What’s the matter?’ he mewled, mimicking her.’ Whats the matter is you’ve done it again.’ ‘ But I boiled it for five minutes more than usual’ [Mariam] ‘ That’s a bold lie” (Hosseini103). Mariam’s cooking had never been a problem before though. He calls Mariam out on a lie that he has no proof, then makes her eat rocks. Rasheed is growing arrogant. For this reasoning I predict Rasheed will become too abusive and after nights from