Laila's A Thousand Splendid Suns

He couldn't-.”. Liesel found it very hard for her to cope with the loss, which is ironic as the narrator is death. But it is understandable as death is very touchy, heartbreaking, and hard subject for anyone with a heart. In time Liesel learned to be strong and maintain her person, I showed this through the flower growing through the rubble and wanting to grow bigger. Liesel's brother's loss had become very an obvious hardship in her life but she was able to flourish and be strong through that loss at a young age, just like the flower through the rubble and ashes. The difficulty of losing Werner was heartbreaking and left a mark on Liesel's life, but she was able to persevere and push through that adversity, becoming a stronger better person.

At the end of the book, it is difficult when everything and everyone she relied on disappeared. This way of upbringing makes it tough when she does have to leave all that she knew and support

Despite the bitter realities, we always search for the silver lining or light at the end of the tunnel. There's always that one key aspect that keeps one motivated to continue on. The value of Hope is proven in Elie Wiesel's memoir Knight as well as throughout The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy. Although the key to survival is maintaining hope, while simultaneously the delusions can be one's Achilles Heal.

Going through tough times made Jeannette’s parents fight each other more often which had an effect on the entire family. “In the morning she slept late and pretended to be sick. It was up to Lori, Brian, and me to get her out of bed and see to it that she was dressed and at school on time” (Walls 74). This is showing how when the family is facing hard times, they stick together and help each other out. Because this family is treated unfairly by society, they go through many struggles.

Later in life, after realizing how hard the world is-- and when you realize that no matter what you do, or how hard you work, there are some things that you can’t change or work with-- you might eventually give up. Irene Reilly gave

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, takes place in Afghanistan between the 1970’s and early 2000’s. The novel starts with Mariam, a teenager who lives in Herat with her mom and rarely sees her father Jalil. One day she goes to see Jalil, but when she arrives back home she sees that her mother has hung herself. Mariam is forced to marry a man, Rasheed, who is much older than her. In part two Laila is introduced as a young girl who lives in Kabul with her mother and father. However the Soviets bomb Kabul, killing Laila’s parents and injuring her. Rasheed and Mariam take Laila in and nurse her back to health. Rasheed marries Laila and has a child with her. In the beginning, Mariam dislikes Laila, however they learn how to become friends

-she runs away with an actor she was dating because she was not interested in the work her family did anymore and wanted to get away

There is no doubt that Lorraine Hansberry uses her play, A Raisin in the Sun, as a platform to give her opinions and observations on the black community and of the racism they faced in the mid-1900s. Her play is filled with commentary

begins to grow up a little and realizes she is now seeing her parents otherwise, almost with a new

Throughout history, as well as in modern day, there are certain societal and cultural views that justify negative treatment towards women. A perfect example of this is in the novels, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. A Passage to India is set in the early 20th century in Chandrapore, India. At this time there were many gender stereotypes which limited women, placing them at the bottom of social hierarchy. The inequality portrayed in this novel is more internal than A Thousand Splendid Suns where the reader sees more physical abuse. This novel is set in Kabul, Afghanistan from the 1960s to the 2000s. This was a time where the Taliban had very strict rules to

It’s hard to imagine the lives of these women in A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini. Not because I’m in a country where women have the ability to express their beliefs, or we’re well developed in science, or I have a strong bull-dozer like personality. Mariam and Laila’s repressed and unrepresented lives are difficult to imagine because they are not so vastly different to mine— it’s hard to imagine because we’re so similar; and that pain in their lives could easily happen to me. It is often misunderstood that two extremes are in fact extremes from one another because of their differences, where in actuality they are extremely similar because they are so extreme. In the Huffington Post’s video “Democrats And Republicans

The novel tells us that the fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to happiness. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” So often we hide behind excuses of not being able to do this or that, but the real story is that we are too afraid to take a chance. It is our

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

Although, she loves herself, her family means more to her than her own life does, so she goes to see her brother no matter what the

A Thousand Splendid Suns illustrates that even at the darkest times, beauty will still lie below the surface as hard as hate tries to suppress it. As dire and as catastrophic as the events of Laila and Mariam’s lives were, they could still find peace and happiness in little