A Thousand Splendid Suns

Jennifer Navarrete Mrs. Grimes English 2 November 2, 2017 A Thousand Splendid Suns Essay In A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini reveals how people can have different perspectives over their own people. People are mistreated because they are simply women and are seen as less valuable. People from different religions, social classes, and from different ethics are seen differently and disgraceful. In the novel many characters are treated differently because of who they are. We the readers would…

First off women are definitely not treated as awful as the women in A Thousand Splendid Suns are, but you can still see the inconsistencies between men and women in the book. One example of this is “Yet to this day she regretted not having completed the course and received her diploma—"just to prove"—as she had told a friend, "that…

In his book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini writes about two women, Mariam and Leila in Kabul. Throughout the story, there are many symbolic representations. Some of these include the signing of a contract, the popular culture the people of Kabul enjoy, and the well known book, The Old Man and the Sea. One of the more clear symbols in the story is when Mariam signs her name on her marriage contract, as well as her own death warrant. On page 326, Hosseini writes, “After Mariam was punished…

In the fiction novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini takes on the burden of representing afghan culture why developing realistic and layered characters. One of the main characters is Laila, an intelligent and progressive girl whom has many close friends before the rule of the Taliban. However, with her town being torn apart by war she begins to face devastating losses. The reason for Lailas sudden gloomy outlook in the quote above is due to her friend Giti’s death, “She couldn’t get…

A Thousand Splendid Suns (414 pages), by Khaled Hosseini, is a compelling and emotional novel that takes place in a small city in Afghanistan and describes the lives of two young women during a time of war, oppression, and poverty. Mariam and Laila are forced to marry a man who turns out to be abusive, however, they eventually develop a beautiful bond that helps them endure all the struggles that come along in their lives. In the beginning of the novel, after Mariam’s mother dies, she is forced…

How does one’s culture affect their lives? Can culture influence one’s behavior? How do people escape the shackles of society? These questions are all explored in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book contains a heartwarming story about two women confined by Afghan culture. In this novel, Hosseini emphasises the struggles women have to endure such as arranged marriage, lack of freedom, and war due to the conservative culture in Afghanistan. Arranged marriage is common in…

Christ Figures in a Muslim Society In The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Mariam sacrifices her life for Laila and her children. This along with her kind attitude and love for children give off a strong image of Christ, even though she is in Afghanistan, a predominantly Muslim country.She loves Lailas kids and takes care of them as if they were her own. A Christ figure like her is needed in such a violent society to show that some people in her country are hand, and they are…

Harsh, cruel, brittle, abusive -- these words describe bad relationships. Khaled Hosseini reveals this in A Thousand Splendid Suns. In this novel, unloving marriages and harsh relationships show Laila and Tari’s true love for each other, unlike the relationships surrounding them. One brutal relationship in this novel was Mariam and Rasheed. Mariam and Rasheed got married on the same day they met each other, and it was not because of “love at first sight”. They got married because Jalil’s wives…

Khaled Hosseini, the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns used a extravagant amount of diverse literary devices to convey the theme of the novel as a whole. He used devices to help the reader get a better understanding for example he used similes, imagery, and personification. With this he was able to show the emotions and actions within characters and how it affected everyone in the end. In the novel he also puts some lines to help show the foreshadowing that is going down throughout the text.…

use endurance to help me never give up and work hard until the end during soccer games. Even if my team is losing the game I keep enduring and believing that I can help my team turn the game around and win the game. In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns two main characters in the story Mariam and Laila are both forced to marry a guy named Rasheed. Rasheed is aggressive and abusive towards Mariam and Laila. Through this painful time Mariam and Laila endure, then create a deep friendship…