Poetic Justice - the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. In Khaled Hosseini’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” a man named Jalil is ashamed of one of his daughters named Mariam. Also a man named Rasheed is a heavy fundamentalist of his religion and sometime takes it too far. Jalil is a victim of poetic justice by becoming ill and dying before not being able to make things right with his daughter after all the harm and wrong things he has done to her in her life.
To begin, Jalil, a movie theater owner, was a wealthy man with 2 wives and 10 kids who lives comfortably in a nearby city of Herat. Jalil would go visit Mariam every Thursday because they did not live together. Mariam lived with her mother, Nana, in a small …show more content…
The story is now about a young girl named Laila and her life. During this part of the story a line comes up stating, “Laila spotted a car parked up the street, across from the house where the shoemaker, Rasheed, lived with his reclusive wife. It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood,” (Hosseini 110). Although it never confirms it in the book, this may have been Jalil attempting to visit Mariam for the first time in years. Mariam must have not wanted him there because the car was still parked there when Laila had walked home after being released from school, and the car had been parked there since the morning. “When she was on her street, she noticed that the blue Benz was still parked there, outside Mariam and Rasheed's house.The elderly man in the brown suit was standing by the hood now, leaning on a cane, looking up at the house,” (Hosseini 116). If Hosseini was explaining Jalil has the “elderly man” then that just shows how long it has been since Jalil has tried to contact Mariam and visit her. Mariam still feels the same about never wanting to see him again as Jalil waits for hours outside of their house hoping Mariam has a change of
To begin, Jalil, a movie theater owner, was a wealthy man with 2 wives and 10 kids who lives comfortably in a nearby city of Herat. Jalil would go visit Mariam every Thursday because they did not live together. Mariam lived with her mother, Nana, in a small …show more content…
The story is now about a young girl named Laila and her life. During this part of the story a line comes up stating, “Laila spotted a car parked up the street, across from the house where the shoemaker, Rasheed, lived with his reclusive wife. It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood,” (Hosseini 110). Although it never confirms it in the book, this may have been Jalil attempting to visit Mariam for the first time in years. Mariam must have not wanted him there because the car was still parked there when Laila had walked home after being released from school, and the car had been parked there since the morning. “When she was on her street, she noticed that the blue Benz was still parked there, outside Mariam and Rasheed's house.The elderly man in the brown suit was standing by the hood now, leaning on a cane, looking up at the house,” (Hosseini 116). If Hosseini was explaining Jalil has the “elderly man” then that just shows how long it has been since Jalil has tried to contact Mariam and visit her. Mariam still feels the same about never wanting to see him again as Jalil waits for hours outside of their house hoping Mariam has a change of