Abuse in A Thousand Splendid Suns You are walking down a dusty street in Kabul, Afghanistan, when all of a sudden, you hear a loud scream of terror inside a house made up of dried mud. You rush inside and find a badly beaten women with a man standing on top of her, belt in hand. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, is the story of a woman named Mariam and a little girl. Both have different backgrounds, but both eventually marry the same man, Rasheed. Rasheed is very religious and has the tendency to abuse woman. Hosseini makes abuse appear throughout the novel because he is relating the book to modern day Afghanistan. Mariam was the first one to be abused. She was mostly abused verbally by her mother, Nana. In the beginning of Chapter
