A Thousand Splendid Suns

In A Thousand Splendid Suns the author shows the oppression of women as a dominant theme from the beginning of the book to the end. This theme is demonstrated through the eyes of the two main female characters Mariam and Laila. They are presented as one who had a disgraceful childhood, Mariam and the other with a better childhood, Laila. Even with the differences in their childhood and life experiences, they both end up as a desperate wife to the heartless Rasheed. The author shows that even if…

in Khaled Hosseini's A thousand splendid suns, the two juxtaposing characters Jalil and Rasheed highlight that when there are patriarchal constructs evident within a society. It leads to the oppression of within their homes. However it is Rasheed unwavering ignorance in his acceptance of fundamentalism that ultimately symbolizes the imbalance within society. When Jalil first faces the problem of an illegitimate child, his first thought was neither of Nana nor of his unborn child but…

Within Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ and Atwood’s ‘The Year of the Flood’, each modern novel’s societies present their central women characters as being enslaved. Arguably, this applies to both the central women characters Toby from ‘The Year of the Flood’ and Mariam from ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. The main focus of ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is how the changing political situation across the twentieth and twenty first century affects women. On the other hand, ‘The Year of the Flood’…

Abuse in A Thousand Splendid Suns You are walking down a dusty street in Kabul, Afghanistan, when all of a sudden, you hear a loud scream of terror inside a house made up of dried mud. You rush inside and find a badly beaten women with a man standing on top of her, belt in hand. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, is the story of a woman named Mariam and a little girl. Both have different backgrounds, but both eventually marry the same man, Rasheed. Rasheed is very religious and has…

Poetic Justice - the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. In Khaled Hosseini’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” a man named Jalil is ashamed of one of his daughters named Mariam. Also a man named Rasheed is a heavy fundamentalist of his religion and sometime takes it too far. Jalil is a victim of poetic justice by becoming ill and dying before not being able to make things right with his daughter after all the harm and wrong things he has done to her in her life.…

ago. Even though progress has been made we still face challenges. From the beginning of humanity men have been seen as the dominant race rather than women. The problems faced in A Thousand Splendid Suns ties into gender relations today because gender played a huge role in the book as it does today. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, the main character in this novel is Mariam. She lives with her malicious and stubborn mother, Nana. While her father Jalil, a successful…

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini is set in war torn Afghanistan from the 1970s till the early 2000. It depicts the life of two women living in the same neighborhood –Mariam and Laila, and how their lives intertwine after a series of events and how they support each other in the Taliban ruled Kabul. Although the book is a work of fiction, it is a social commentary on the lives of women in Afghanistan and the oppression they face due to the rules imposed upon them by the Taliban.…

The fictional novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini provides a vivid portrayal of a country devastated by idealised leaders and wars initiated on it by foreign and internal forces. The narrative is in perspective of two women living in the problematic society. This text sheds light on Afghanistan and the implications of a corrupt government has brought on it 's people. Due to it 's relevance today, my view of society has been altered because of the discrepancy of this book to my…

In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, women’s rights were presented to be not equal to men and limited by a series of events. The main women characters in the novel, Mariam and Laila rights were not equal to the husband they shared, Rasheed. Mariam and Laila had limited rights, which means that Rasheed held most of their power. Nana, Mariam’s mom rights were presented to me not equal to a man because of the blame she was forced to take. Also Aziza, Raheed’s and Laila’s daughter was not treated…

the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, concentrates on mothers and the bond between women. Khaled Hosseini, the author, in his fictional novel, illustrates the difficulty of women in Afghanistan, the insults of men, and the insignificance of society on women in the country. Moreover, A Thousand Splendid Suns shows the effect Afghanistan history has had on many individuals, ending in death for one character, and a new life for another. The two main characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns, are Mariam…