Chapter 1
Introduction
The superb instinct for storytelling propelled A Thousand Splendid Suns in becoming a beloved classic by Khaled Hosseini that is a chronicle of 30 years of Afghan history and also deals with story of family, faith, friendship, and salvation in love. Mariam and Laila, the two protagonists with varying generation and ideas about love and family, are brought together by war, caused by loss and fate. The enduring dangers in home and in the streets of Kabul helps to form a bond of mother-daughter to each other which drifts their story and alter the course of next generation.
Inspired by the lacking portrayal of Afghan women in The Kite Runner, Hosseini writes about woman’s love for her family seen by self-sacrifice. The project …show more content…
It is land brutally shattering people by various wars. The women of Afghanistan who are highly victimized, stand strong bear all kinds of violence. The text of A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses the socio-political and cultural history of Afghanistan.
Literature is considered as a medium to represent history and reveals the several procedures and tensions which bring historical change. its best to look at the historical chronology of Afghanistan for thirty years starting from Zahir Shah’s reign to the Soviet invasion and shifting to the rule of the Taliban. It is a detailed story of two generations caught in the devastating war leading to the struggle of survival and during this the history of the nation plays an integral part.
Many instances like Jalil telling Mariam about Herat, a place where war cries every moment and Mariam was lucky to be away from it and leading a fearless life in rural landscape. It is shown as a place where people tend to hide their fear of war by surrounding themselves to the luxurious means like shopping complexes, cinema halls where a life of opulence is …show more content…
The interference of countries like Soviet Union, the Middle East Countries and the USA has been mistaken to be a help but in reality did not lead to the betterment of the Afghan people. It has only lead a clear–cut way to an open market and a source of trade for weapon and consumer goods.
So, in this war for power of hegemony, there is only the loss of the latest generation comprising of characters like Aziza, the little daughter of Laila, who is confined to the orphanage, where she is leading a deprived life of denial of basic amenities. Therefore, it is best to sum it up as a narrative of a nation and its citizens with the uprising agony due to confusion in their identities during a period of warfare.
There are similarities in the first two works of Khaled Hosseini because their story takes place in Afganistan and show how it was before the war broke, how peaceful the things were. Then it talked of Afganistan during the war stating how neighbor hoods were torn apart and how brutally people were raped and killed irrespective of their sense of
Introduction
The superb instinct for storytelling propelled A Thousand Splendid Suns in becoming a beloved classic by Khaled Hosseini that is a chronicle of 30 years of Afghan history and also deals with story of family, faith, friendship, and salvation in love. Mariam and Laila, the two protagonists with varying generation and ideas about love and family, are brought together by war, caused by loss and fate. The enduring dangers in home and in the streets of Kabul helps to form a bond of mother-daughter to each other which drifts their story and alter the course of next generation.
Inspired by the lacking portrayal of Afghan women in The Kite Runner, Hosseini writes about woman’s love for her family seen by self-sacrifice. The project …show more content…
It is land brutally shattering people by various wars. The women of Afghanistan who are highly victimized, stand strong bear all kinds of violence. The text of A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses the socio-political and cultural history of Afghanistan.
Literature is considered as a medium to represent history and reveals the several procedures and tensions which bring historical change. its best to look at the historical chronology of Afghanistan for thirty years starting from Zahir Shah’s reign to the Soviet invasion and shifting to the rule of the Taliban. It is a detailed story of two generations caught in the devastating war leading to the struggle of survival and during this the history of the nation plays an integral part.
Many instances like Jalil telling Mariam about Herat, a place where war cries every moment and Mariam was lucky to be away from it and leading a fearless life in rural landscape. It is shown as a place where people tend to hide their fear of war by surrounding themselves to the luxurious means like shopping complexes, cinema halls where a life of opulence is …show more content…
The interference of countries like Soviet Union, the Middle East Countries and the USA has been mistaken to be a help but in reality did not lead to the betterment of the Afghan people. It has only lead a clear–cut way to an open market and a source of trade for weapon and consumer goods.
So, in this war for power of hegemony, there is only the loss of the latest generation comprising of characters like Aziza, the little daughter of Laila, who is confined to the orphanage, where she is leading a deprived life of denial of basic amenities. Therefore, it is best to sum it up as a narrative of a nation and its citizens with the uprising agony due to confusion in their identities during a period of warfare.
There are similarities in the first two works of Khaled Hosseini because their story takes place in Afganistan and show how it was before the war broke, how peaceful the things were. Then it talked of Afganistan during the war stating how neighbor hoods were torn apart and how brutally people were raped and killed irrespective of their sense of