A Thousand Splendid Suns is particularly a book about suffering brought on by the idea of honor and shame. For many, the word honor may mean high respect but to Islam, honor is “guarded, granted protection, and placed in its proper position that deserves protection and glorification” because, in the Islam religion, honor is one of the five necessities of life. So it makes sense, that in a book containing the Islam religion, honor and shame are important, and coincidentally, the reason for many rash decisions in the novel.
