A Thousand Splendid Suns

There are a multitude of themes discussed in both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The shared themes include; Afghani culture and identity, cycle of hope and despair, loyalty and devotion in spite of difficulty, and human capacity for evil. The author of both works, Khaled Hosseini, was able to create two different plots with the above themes included in both. He was able to do this by changing the characters and changing the way the themes were presented. This left many…

stand up against the wrong. A great example of a fictional hero would be Steve Roger in Captain America. He experiences a rough patch in his life but as he gains superficial human powers, he uses them to defeat the villain. In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the main heroes of the novel are Mariam and Laila. Mariam is one of the protagonists of the novel, who has a troubled childhood but regardless, she is a strong, selfless, and a loving character who is not loved back…

For example, Mariam had to show strength as a child not to be resentful of her father on the basis of her Nana’s negative attitude towards him ‘his idea of penance’ and Laila had to learn to adjust to life without her family at a young age. This sets the context for where the roots of their inner strength have derived from. Moreover, the mood of the novel is rather negative, as it displays intense agony and sadness which the characters face. Mariam and Laila display how they conquer the…

female sides of his native country, Afghanistan. • He took a trip to Afghanistan. It wasn’t a trip intended to be about “researching a book” but to educate himself on the culture and lives of the people. About a year later, he began to form A Thousand Splendid Suns. He compiled all the stories from the people he visited and tried to create two female leads to reflect the hardships the people face in Afghanistan. • Hosseini was a doctor before he became a writer. Although he doesn’t believe the…

at a work involving the double standards put on women, the feminist perspective uses the conflict approach to examine the reinforcement of gender roles and inequalities, highlighting the role of patriarchy in maintaining the oppression of women. A Thousand…

In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, the protagonist, Mariam, is seen facing the same issues as Medea. Mariam experienced many hardships through her early childhood, urging her to mature and rely on self-dependance. Her mother commits suicide because she ran away from home to be with her wealthy father Jalil, however she was sent back and was traumatized with what her mother had done. Eventually, she was married off to an older man named Rasheed, whose only interest was having a son.…

Others as Kite Runners and a Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini have been my all times preferences. Both these books incorporate life stories in Afghanistan. Ever since I found a passion/habit in reading I have improved my English and recognition of words. Although there is more in the…

Khaled Hossieni, author of “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, published his first novel “The Kite Runner” in 2003, while he was in medical school. His novel, “the Kite Runner” went on to be an international bestseller, and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than one-hundred weeks. Four years later, The Kite Runner, directed by Marc Foster, won the BFCA Critic’s Choice Award for Best Young Actor. Although Marc’s film was a beautiful piece in itself, as far as an effective adaptation…

tempered, beautiful and relatively naive girl. She is always willing to see the best in everybody and never suspects even the most suspicious characters of having ulterior motives or doing anything that might hurt her. At the beginning of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Laila is just a kid and has a similar characterization as bright, sweet, beautiful, and still innocent young girl though she is much more strong willed and independent than Jane.Both characters are thrown into similar situations when…

In the openings of the novels ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ and ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, Hosseini and Hardy portray their female characters as victims of circumstance, making them sympathetic characters. While the openings of the two novels are set in different times and in different places, with ‘A Thousand…’ being set in the 1950s in Herat, Afghanistan and ‘Tess of…’ being set in rural England during the late 19th century, Mariam and Tess have similar predicaments. They are both women living…