A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a heart-warming, gut-wrenching, powerful fictional novel that leaves readers wanting more. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller and definitely owned up to its great reviews. You learn the importance of friendship while also gaining a feel of what it’s like to be a woman living in Afghanistan, especially during the Taliban takeover. The author grabs your attention in a way that makes you feel like you’re apart of this unbelievable novel. Mariam, a young girl living in Afghanistan, had lived with her mother until she found that she had committed suicide. She was forced to stay with her father, but he arranged for her to be married to a sixty-one year old stranger. Mariam’s husband Rasheed often abused and neglected her. Laila, another young girl from…
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a historical fiction novel inspired by his observations of women wearing burqas during a visit to Afghanistan in 2003. Khaled Hosseini is an American writer who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and known for his vivid descriptions of Afghanistan (Luebering and Pallardy). The book depicts the radical social and political changes in Afghanistan through the relationship between the first and second wife of an abusive husband. The novel demonstrates…
After reading it for a second time, I can definitively say that A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini is different than any other book I have read during my Pittsford English career. Why? Khalid Hosseini has an unparalleled authenticity as he writes about two women, Mariam and Laila, against the backdrop of political upheaval in Afghanistan. Because of this authenticity and my own background as an Indian-American, I feel as though I have a special connection to Mariam and Laila. My…
In the book “A Thousand Splendid Suns” the author Khaled Hosseini opens up a window allowing us a peek at the everyday life of woman in Afghanistan which includes the lack of education, child marriage, dress code and the everyday physical and emotional abuse. We are sheltered here in Canada from hearing about these unimaginable things that the women of Afghanistan have endured in there day to day lives. It may come as a shock for many as some of the things that are a daily occurrence to us,…
A Thousand Splendid Suns The story A Thousand Splendid Suns is set in Afghanistan late 1960 to early 2000’s during the fall of the soviets and the rise of the brutal Taliban. The novel follows the two main characters Laila and Mariam which follow their trials of life as a woman in Kabul. It begins with a young Mariam, who is forced into a marriage with a much older man. Mariam spends the next couple of years, having miscarriage after miscarriage and dealing with violent beatings at the hand of…
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a Man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always you remember that”(26). A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini is a novel set in Afghanistan with two girls Laila and Mariam and their struggle to survive, raise children, and find peace. Hosseini uses setting and plot/conflicts to illustrate the discrimination of women in an Afghan society. A thousand splendid suns is set in Afghanistan. In an afghan society, women get…
On the surface, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and “One Tree Hill” could not be more different. One takes place in the oppressive, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the other takes place in a typical American small town. However, one huge similarity is found. The most common theme found in the novel and the television show is the theme of Identity, Family, and Connections. The theme of fathers leaving their families is found in both. Every child needs a father in his or her life, so once the…
Thousand Splendid Suns Book Talk A Thousand Splendid Suns, the second realistic fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini takes place in Afghanistan from the year 1974, to the year 2003. In this novel, the reader follows Mariam and Laila’s journey growing up and dealing with the hardships, while learning about the Afghan’s way of life and culture. And you accompany Laila and Mariam through their lives together. Mariam is nearly two decades older than Laila, Laila grew up in a loving family in…
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni is a novel based on the last 3 decades of Afghan history. It is a chronicle of the volatile events of Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post- Taliban rebuilding that puts the nation through many adversities. This presentation focuses on the time period when the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is born, in September 1996, and the impacts of the Taliban rule after this. So a tiny recap for how the Taliban reign came to be. …
The current poverty rate in Kabul, Afghanistan is twenty-nine percent. ADD ANOTHER SENTENCE! Hosseini uses the rigorous poverty in Afghanistan to carve the lives of Mariam and Laila as they fight for survival during the Taliban invasion in his book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. A Thousand Splendid Suns starts out when Mariam was five years old in 1974. When Mariam turns fifteen she finds her mother dead, by the act of suicide. Mariam was then left with her father, Jalil, and his other…