No Respect for Women in Afghanistan in the Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

I am very impressed with the information presented in your article “The Plight of the Afghan Women”. I was not aware that Afghan women were treated so badly as you mention in the text. Besides, I had no idea they had so many restrictions and that men consider them inferior just because of their gender. After reading your publication and doing some research I couldn’t believe this type of things were happening.

Much like the country of Afghanistan, characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns carry on through tough times and loss. Mariam and Laila persevere through unhealthy relationships with their mothers, as well as their abusive relationship with Rasheed. Through their character growth throughout the book, they grow into strong individuals. The war that has greatly damaged their country leads them to be able to overcome anything in their lives. Through this character growth, strength and perseverance through tough times proves to be the most prominent and important theme in the

Although it isn’t as apparent in America as Americans tend to reject these connotations, gender roles exist all throughout human culture, causing things other than genitalia to be associated with the terms man and women. While gender roles vary with culture, typically these associations consist of men are expected to be strong, dominant and opinionated, while women are expected to be more reserved, submissive, and dedicate. These expectations leak into our views of people, causing people to judge others based off their gender first, instead of simply judging everyone as an individual from the get-go. while these generalizations can’t be helped as generalizing things is what people inherently do, the Taliban took it to another level. when

In the case of Afghani women’s memoirs and life stories offer new understanding of life under repression and how Afghani women struggled to keep their autonomy despite the oppression they faced. “Zoya’s Story”, “My Forbidden Face”, and “A Bed of Red Flowers” are memoirs written by Afghani women who experienced life under the Soviet Union and the Taliban in Afghanistan. These memoires along with interviews with Afghan women provided a complete picture that Afghani women are not as passive as they are portrayed in the history and book in the media. Women resisted in different shape and form, some engages in violent resistance, while others engaged in non-violent form of opposition. For instance, Zoya joined RAWA and participated in non-violent

A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini, 2007) is a novel centred around two women named Mariam and Laila. Mariam grew up outside of Herat, a small city in Afghanistan in the 1960’s. Mariam goes through many hardships in her life, including losing her mother, Nana, to suicide and her father, Jalil, not accepting her. After Mariam loses her mother, her father rearranges a marriage for Mariam with a rich business man named Rasheed while she was only fifteen, which is just the beginning of her tragic events. On the other hand, Laila grew up with her mother and father whose marriage was slowly falling apart. Laila grew up with a boy who went by the name Tariq. Laila had very deep feelings for Tariq and they both did end up having a relationship

Firstly, female discrimination is an essential social issue in Afghanistan and reflect women’ s life condition and unequal treatment. In the novel the main character Mariam was bitten by Rasheed and ravage her body, Rasheed thoughts women in Afghanistan

A thousand splendid suns is the 2007 novel written by Khaled Hosseini, between the 1960’s and 2000’s in Afghanistan when the Taliban violated women’s rights.

A Thousand Splendid Suns takes place in Afghanistan from the 1960s to the 2000s when US invaded. Mariam is a young girl in the 1960s, grows up outside Herat, Afghanistan. Mariam has had different feelings about her parents. She lives with her spiteful and stubborn mother, Nana. While her father Jalil is a businessman, visits Mariam about once a week. Mariam hates not seeing her father and not being a big part of her dad’s life. She wants to live with him and his three wives, and her half-sisters in Herat. She tells him by asking to take her to see Pinocchio for her birthday. He doesn’t like it but he agrees, but then never shows up to take her to the movie. Mariam walks to her dad’s house, but he won’t let her in, so she sleeps on the

During Hosseini time living in Afghanistan, women essentially had the same rights as men. They had the right to education, the right to seek a professional employment, and last but not least the ability to marry the man they chose themselves (Stuhr 2). For example, his mother was a high school teacher and his father a diplomat with the Afghanistan Foreign, meaning that they had equal rights (Biography 1). Then during the Taliban Era, women were protected under the law and banished from numerous human rights. They were stripped off form the work force and the women’s schools were closed down. The woman could not leave their homes without a man and they had to wear a burqa that covered their whole body. All these rights were implied in the novel

In addition to the ongoing problems, a lot of people in Afghanistan are internally displaced, meaning that they fled their homes only to move to the borders of Afghanistan. Most people have to flee from their homes because of violence, wars and lack of necessary needs to survive. The location in which they move is usually from war zones or places with high violence, to camps and “safety” shelters. However, Afghanistan does offer some assistance by having camps and shelters, unfortunately it doesn’t provide much help because of the terrible conditions and health hazards. Being internally displaced affects the population severely because a lot of women don’t go to school, and their is a lack of contraceptives causing more child birth rates.

Great post! I like the way you emphasize the issue of feminist oppression and the example on the Afghanistan women. It is so sad that most of these women have been subjected to different oppression due to their religious beliefs, and where most of them have accepted such kind of life as the only right way in keeping with their faith.

Ever since the Taliban took over they have been violating the rights of their people especially the women. If seen anywhere alone or uncovered the women get punished usually either getting beat or held captive. This is very common for the women in Afghanistan to experience. The Taliban uses the Islamic Koran book as their way of doing things. The Islamic Koran is a sacred book seen as almost like a bible. The Taliban interprets what they get out of this book into their way of life. However their interpretation of it is more of a punishing form for the women. The official name of Afghanistan is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is known for its great quantity of natural resources such as coal, oil, gas, and extreme amount of

Before reading this novel I thought that I had a fairly good understanding of the restrictions that faced women in Afghan culture. However, after finishing this eye-opening novel, I was struck by the abundance of knowledge that was unknown to me. The most prominent theme that I saw in this story was social injustice, especially through gender roles. The oppression that Mariam, Laila and countless other women faced each day due to the fact that men in Afghan culture desired complete control and power over women shocked me.

This film was powerful. Illustrating many aspects of gender inequality in Afghanistan, this film communicated to me just how oppressed women are in these middle eastern countries and how drastic of devices they have to resort to in order to live a life worth living. It was truly moving. This film certainly changed my perception of what it is like to live in Afghanistan as a women. This film changed this perception in two way. The first of which is that this film exposed me to the rigor at which oppression is enforced particularly by the Taliban. I have always thought of the Taliban as a militant government group that pushed its oppressive agenda by way of force, but only on rare occasions. This film changed that as it showed how the Taliban

United States’ humanitarian relief efforts have recently focused much of their efforts on involving the livelihood of Afghanistan women. For decades, these women have been frequent victims of abuse, despite some success by authorities in prosecuting rape cases, forced marriages and domestic violence. Child marriage, selling and buying women to settle disputes, assault and more than a dozen other acts of violence and abuse against women are a common norm in Afghan society. About 87% of women experience physical, psychological or sexual violence. Incidents of violence against women remain largely under-reported because of cultural restraints, social norms and religious beliefs. Because of widespread discrimination, fears of social stigma