In “Thousand Splendid Suns”, Khaled Hosseini explores Mariam’s development while creating a unique and unforgettable image for the readers, which becomes an essential part of the story that Hosseini is telling. This novel is set in Afghanistan, but focuses on the contrast between Mariam’s childhood home and adult home. Highlighting both the physical and emotional views of each living quarters as Mariam ages from an innocent child to a cultured women, Hosseini is able to demonstrate Mariam’s growth. As the readers are introduced to Mariam, they are also introduced the Kolba, her childhood home. Using depressing, pessimistic diction, the author conveys Mariam’s childhood as isolated and ill-fated. This view of her childhood is paralleled with
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The Kolba may have been cheap and falling apart, but as an aged women, Mariam describes her childhood home to Laila with positive, colorful diction. As an adult having lived with true evil and isolation, she looks back on the Kolab with fond memories, both of the freedom she had along with her loving mother. She realizes that her mother was right about various things ranging from the evils of man to people’s acceptance. Mariam learned through the raising of Laila’s daughter, Aziza, she learns that Nana only had her best interest at heart. While in the kolba, she could run through the grass, cook, and climb trees; she grew to be independent. Mariam parallels her thoughts of the Kolba with her mother. A structure that's rundown, reliable, and always there for her. She wants to escape its public isolation, but upon leaving her house and being thrust into marriage, far away, she realizes, too late, that she misses the piles of mud she used to call home. On the other hand, her luxurious, new house is parallel to her views of the house's owner, her husband, Rasheed. While in the city of Kabul, a symbol of westernization, this house was everything but. In this house she was isolated from everyone else. She wasn’t allowed to leave by herself and had to wear a burqa. After numerous pregnancy fails, her only companion, rasheed turned on her, causing her great pain. Like the house, giving a false appearance of
The Kolba may have been cheap and falling apart, but as an aged women, Mariam describes her childhood home to Laila with positive, colorful diction. As an adult having lived with true evil and isolation, she looks back on the Kolab with fond memories, both of the freedom she had along with her loving mother. She realizes that her mother was right about various things ranging from the evils of man to people’s acceptance. Mariam learned through the raising of Laila’s daughter, Aziza, she learns that Nana only had her best interest at heart. While in the kolba, she could run through the grass, cook, and climb trees; she grew to be independent. Mariam parallels her thoughts of the Kolba with her mother. A structure that's rundown, reliable, and always there for her. She wants to escape its public isolation, but upon leaving her house and being thrust into marriage, far away, she realizes, too late, that she misses the piles of mud she used to call home. On the other hand, her luxurious, new house is parallel to her views of the house's owner, her husband, Rasheed. While in the city of Kabul, a symbol of westernization, this house was everything but. In this house she was isolated from everyone else. She wasn’t allowed to leave by herself and had to wear a burqa. After numerous pregnancy fails, her only companion, rasheed turned on her, causing her great pain. Like the house, giving a false appearance of