A Thousand Splendid Suns

Heated debates arise on multiple occasions between just two people. Those who hold strong to their beliefs often find themselves in arguments, as their values conflict with others’. The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns shows this difficulty through protagonist Mariam and her husband, Rasheed. Their conflicting beliefs made it difficult to live together; Mariam’s gentle nature clashed with Rasheed’s harsh and sometimes violent ways. For example, Rasheed’s…

4 out of 5 Muslim women in the middle east are mistreated, most of the time by their husbands or other men in their lives. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini talks about how the lives of women are mistreated and how they have no choice but to stay in their horrific households. Two characters in the story are Mariam and Laila. Mariam is a quiet and thoughtful girl, who runs away from home at the age of 15 after her mother commits suicide. She is then shortly forced into…

What sacrifices do parents have to make? To what extent would one go to for a child? Khaled Hosseini emphasizes this concept in A Thousand Splendid Suns. In the novel, Laila makes numerous sacrifices for her children. Innumerable hardships are withstood by parents for children. These include having to endure physical pain, mental anguish, and an abusive relationship. Laila undergoes immense amounts of pain for her children. An instance of this is when she has a caesarean section with her son,…

life while, on the other hand, other people have an exceedingly tough time. Women in the middle east are a great example of those people that go through life experiencing problematic and painful trials everyday. In Khaled Hosseini´s book A Thousand Splendid Suns, tells us the story of the suffering and day to day life of two struggling women. Mariam and Laila the women referred to in the book. who have little to no freedom in their lives due to the fact they reside within a male dominant…

those who refuse to use their voices. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, talks about a lawyer who defends an African-American book. Night is about a Jewish man who endures the harsh years of the holocaust in concentration camps. The book A Thousand Splendid Suns is about two Muslim women who must fight the patriarchal male rule that objectify women. The theme of these three books is that when injustice is ignored, it is indirectly perpetuated. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the jury in…

Like a ship in a storm, the turmoils of war can create a crippling tempest that can affect a child both physically and mentally. Author Khaled Hosseini shows the terrifying effects of war on the children of Afghanistan in his book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Afghan children suffer in their volatile home country, whether from loss of family, loss of limb, or loss of mental stability through PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Hosseini explores this concept in many ways, such as his characters…

that being a man means strength and power, ad the expense of being allowed to feel things.” (Smith, 0:05). Toxic masculinity exists almost everywhere, in western society, as well as Nagpal 3 in the society of Afghanistan, where the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is set. “He was a man. All those years without a woman. Could she fault him for the way God had created him?” (Hosseini, 82). Here one can see what the fundamental problem with the thinking of Mariam (and like her, a lot of other people)…

A Thousand Splendid Suns takes its readers to Afghanistan when all the fighting was taking place. It tells the stories of two girls/ women, Mariam and Laila, which lived in the area during the time of some terrible events. The terrible events eventually brought the two together. It takes its readers through love, pain, sadness, loss, grief etc. Both had to live through the last thirty years of Afghanistan. They went through losing their parents, being in love, having to move, and more.…

unbreakable ship that lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean today. Khaled Hosseini uses the Titanic movie in A Thousand Splendid Suns. In this novel, Hosseini relates Rasheed to the Titanic to represent entrapment, degradation, and control of Mariam’s and Laila’s lives: yet like the Titanic, Rasheed is also vulnerable. Rasheed verbally entraps Laila and Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns just like the Titanic entrapped the lives of the people on the ship. Rasheed’s first wife died and Mariam…

The death of a friend, loved-one, or enemy is one of the most difficult hurdles to pass. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, the chance or option of murdering someone causes guilt in the culprit’s life, not always resolved problems, but the atmosphere around may be changed in a more peaceful manner. Gerda Weissmann Klein wrote All But My Life, which showed us the way innocent people were tortured and put through pure suffering for no reason. In A Separate Peace…