Injustice In A Thousand Splendid Suns

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In Malala Yousfzai’s speech to the united nations, she says,” I raise up my voice--not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” Malala is saying that she only speaks for those who don't have a voice, not those who refuse to use their voices. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, talks about a lawyer who defends an African-American book. Night is about a Jewish man who endures the harsh years of the holocaust in concentration camps. The book A Thousand Splendid Suns is about two Muslim women who must fight the patriarchal male rule that objectify women. The theme of these three books is that when injustice is ignored, it is indirectly perpetuated.
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Elie Wiesel is being evicted from his home in Transylvania because he is Jewish. The book states, “"Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death. They ordered us to run. We began to run. Who would have thought that we were so strong? From behind their windows, from behind their shutters, our fellow citizens watched as we passed.”(Wiesel, 19) Namely, as the Jews were being oppressed by the police, the people who they conversed, lived, and laughed with had just kept silent as watching their friends being treated as inferior. This shows that they are perpetuating the injustice because they are ignoring the injustice which is basically telling the police officers that it is okay to treat these people unjustly. The novel continues and the Jews were sent to concentration camps. Elie is with his father and they have to stay inside a wagon with about 50 other Jews. The police then order the Jews to get out of the wagon. As they walk through the towns, Elie says, “As we were passing through some of the villages, many Germans watched us, showing no surprise. No doubt they had seen quite a few of these processions…” This shows how …show more content…
In Kabul, Afghanistan, Laila has been forced to marry Rasheed, a man whom she doesn’t love due to the death of her parents. Laila now lives with Mariam, her sister wife, and Rasheed, the antagonist. Laila conceives a child and has been told by the doctor to not have sexual intercourse with Rasheed for 3 weeks, but it has been two months! Rasheed then jumps to the conclusion that Mariam is the reason for this. Rasheed finds Mariam and starts beating her for this. In the test, Laila screams, “You win! You win! Don’t do this. Please Rasheed, no beating! Please don’t do this.” Laila allows Rasheed to have sex with her so that Mariam will not get beaten by Rasheed. Though Mariam is not fond of Laila, this didn’t stop Laila from fighting the injustice she was seeing. Later in the text, Mariam and Laila grow a bond and are able to get along just fine. But soon, Laila begins to fall in love with someone else. When Rasheed finds out, he runs to Laila and beats her. Then he starts choking her. While this is happening, the text says that Mariam is thinking, “He's going to kill her, she thought. He really means to. And Mariam could not, would not, allow that to happen. He'd taken so much from her in twenty-seven years of marriage. She would not watch him take Laila too. Mariam steadied her feet and tightened her grip

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