Similes In A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini, the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns used a extravagant amount of diverse literary devices to convey the theme of the novel as a whole. He used devices to help the reader get a better understanding for example he used similes, imagery, and personification. With this he was able to show the emotions and actions within characters and how it affected everyone in the end. In the novel he also puts some lines to help show the foreshadowing that is going down throughout the text. Around the commencement of the story he shows that Mariam is distressed in such a way she would do anything to get what she wants. On page 35 Hosseini shows this by using similes and imagery to show how she let her emotions control her actions.
Due to Mariam letting her emotions do that it helps with the idea that no matter the hardship and inequality of society everything with workout even if it means something bad has to come. …show more content…
She feels ashamed of herself for giving the time and effort to Jalil but forlorn with the idea of her father letting it continue. It ties in later on in the novel showing that even though she felt like her father had betrayed her she still could find something she loved and someone could feel the same way. Jalil could have not brought her in after Nana died but he did. This makes her more aware and even if not liking the outcome, it had to happen for her to meet Laila. Mariam and Laila learned to love each other after their small feud and set aside their differences. It goes along with the theme that no matter the hardship and inequality of society everything will workout in the end even if it means something bad has to to come. Mariam has found someone she deeply cares about with the happiness she has and it overpowers the hatred Rasheed and her share at the