Thesis: Throughout the novel, titled A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author, Khaled Hosseini, through language, indirectly and effectively argues that the style of parenting in which a parent utilizes throughout the childhood of a child significantly influences the child in the future stages of their life.
Two of the children, Aziza and Zalmai, are significantly influenced through the parenting of Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, and Tariq due to various factors, including, but not limited to, beliefs on gender and their roles and opinions on organizations like the Mujahideen and the Taliban. Following a run-down situation with Rasheed in which Laila provides life to a girl, Aziza, Laila provides life to a boy, Zalmai, who Rasheed loves. As females, Aziza, Laila, …show more content…
He uncrossed his arms. Limped a few steps toward them. Laila stopped. A choking noise came up her throat. Her knees weakened. Laila suddenly wanted, needed, to grope for Mariam’s arm, her shoulder, her wrist, something, anything, to lean on. But she didn’t. She didn’t dare. She didn’t dare move a muscle. She didn’t dare breathe, or blink even, for fear that he was nothing but a mirage shimmering in the distance, a brittle illusion that would vanish at the slightest provocation. Laila stood perfectly still and looked at Tariq until her chest screamed for air and her eyes burned to blink. And, somehow, miraculously, after she took a breath, closed and opened her eyes, he was still standing there. Tariq was still standing there. Laila allowed herself to take a step toward him. Then another. And another. And then she was running” (Hosseini 327). Through the use of personification, Laila’s emotions towards Tariq are portrayed as tenfold as they are without personification. A choking noise cannot literally travel up her throat. This is used to portray her as shellshocked. Up until this point, she had believed Tariq was one of the multiple casualties to an attack in Pakistan; before he was
Two of the children, Aziza and Zalmai, are significantly influenced through the parenting of Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, and Tariq due to various factors, including, but not limited to, beliefs on gender and their roles and opinions on organizations like the Mujahideen and the Taliban. Following a run-down situation with Rasheed in which Laila provides life to a girl, Aziza, Laila provides life to a boy, Zalmai, who Rasheed loves. As females, Aziza, Laila, …show more content…
He uncrossed his arms. Limped a few steps toward them. Laila stopped. A choking noise came up her throat. Her knees weakened. Laila suddenly wanted, needed, to grope for Mariam’s arm, her shoulder, her wrist, something, anything, to lean on. But she didn’t. She didn’t dare. She didn’t dare move a muscle. She didn’t dare breathe, or blink even, for fear that he was nothing but a mirage shimmering in the distance, a brittle illusion that would vanish at the slightest provocation. Laila stood perfectly still and looked at Tariq until her chest screamed for air and her eyes burned to blink. And, somehow, miraculously, after she took a breath, closed and opened her eyes, he was still standing there. Tariq was still standing there. Laila allowed herself to take a step toward him. Then another. And another. And then she was running” (Hosseini 327). Through the use of personification, Laila’s emotions towards Tariq are portrayed as tenfold as they are without personification. A choking noise cannot literally travel up her throat. This is used to portray her as shellshocked. Up until this point, she had believed Tariq was one of the multiple casualties to an attack in Pakistan; before he was