Many stories will only allude to sex instead of describing what happens. The reason is because writing a sexual scene with deep, rich meaning is harder than it seems. Instead writers will give off sexual illusions in their writing. Author Khaled Hosseini does something more than that in his novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. This novel explores the history of Afghanistan and the Islamic culture in the most fascinating perspective ; two women; Laila and Mariam. The story begins with Mariam, who is from Herat, a very poor area and is sent to Kabul to marry a man she never met, Rasheed. Mariam originally was high spirited and smiled. While the war with the Taliban increased, so did her misery. Laila was a child who lived next door to Mariam and
