In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, the protagonist, Mariam, is seen facing the same issues as Medea. Mariam experienced many hardships through her early childhood, urging her to mature and rely on self-dependance. Her mother commits suicide because she ran away from home to be with her wealthy father Jalil, however she was sent back and was traumatized with what her mother had done. Eventually, she was married off to an older man named Rasheed, whose only interest was having a son. Little did he know that Mariam’s inability to have children will later turn her into an indignant and bitter women. Later on, Rasheed brings home a young girl named Laila who was injured and decided to care for her. Rasheed decides to take advantage
