Relationships In A Thousand Splendid Suns

Starting off with A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam was always called a Harami by her mother. After constantly hearing this while growing up, Mariam thought that it was a big deal because that is the reason she is unable to live with or see

For many years, women have been oppressed and treated as property. The opinion of a woman did not matter, being obedient to her husband was all that is required. Even if they were obedient to their husbands, women were property and only for the pleaser and likening to the husband. Mariam did all the her husband required of her, however there was one thing should could not. Which was give her husband, Rasheed, a son or any child. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini reveals the social issue of physical abuse and mental abuse by his use of imagery, diction, and dialogue.

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

“Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that’s alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon’s eye, grieve not (Hosseini 365).” A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a story that is set place in modern-day Afghanistan. It is one depicting the lives of two particular women who live under the control of a persecuting husband and the infamous rule of the Taliban. And through these two women (Laila and Mariam), Hosseini creates a mind-blowing, awe-inspiring adventure of regret, despair, tragedy, and more importantly, redemption. The book begins with separate perspectives of each woman, and how they consequently come together in the same

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a group of Americans and Brits travel to Pamplona to experience bull-fighting and festival surrounding it. Returning from World War I and struggling with injury-caused impotence, Jake Barnes longs for Brett’s love. However, she, already engaged to another man, dismisses his romantic attempts, more focused on the physical parts of relationships, which seem vital to a traditional relationship. Although it feels like conventional intimacy is largely absent in the novel, a close look at marriage and Brett and Jake’s unusually deep affection reinvents the definition of love.

For Mariam especially, the novel was particularly hopeless with no justification in the end to the hardships that she endured. Within the first few chapters of the story Mariam’s mother committed suicide which uprooted her entire life. Mariam moved in with Jalil and was immediately married off to Rasheed at the age of 15. Rasheed constantly abused Mariam. One specific instance of his unnecessarily harsh abuse was when he forced Mariam to chew rock and compared them to her cooking. “ ‘Now Chew’ he said. Through the mouthful of fruit and pebbles, Mariam mumbled a plea. Tears were leaking from the corners of her eyes.”

What would you do if all of your rights as an independent, free willed person, were taken away? If you were left with nothing at all, except being told to follow everything someone tell you to do. This is how women in other countries are treated. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hoesseini captures how it feels to live in those circumstances. However, while expressing those circumstances, he raises the question: Do your circumstances decide who and what you will become?

In the novel “A thousands splendid suns” by Khaled Hosseini it conveys a young girl name Mariam growing up in Afghanistan. In the novel Mariam has complex feelings about her parents. Her mother Nana is unpleasant and her father a Jalil has an isolated family with three other wives. The author Khaled Hosseini ideas in this novel are fair because its realistic fiction it can happen in today’s world. Mariam is not content in her home.

Unlike Mariam, Lalia has been educated by a school and her father, as her father believes that ‘Marriage can wait, education cannot’. This statement shows the reader how the love of each father to their girls is completely different. Mariam’s father sees that she is an illegitimate child and will bring shame to his proud title compared to Lalia’s father who respects his daughter and her passion to learn. The novel takes an unexpected turn when a bomb kills Lalia’s mother and father.

Mariam’s mother tells her: “Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have.” Discuss how this sentiment informs Mariam’s life and how it relates to the larger themes of the novel.

Strength, Love and Hope One thing that football has taught me is that it’s not all about your size and strength but about your mind. It’s about the ability to overcome fear and pain. When most people think of endurance, they probably think of champion weight-lifters or marathon athletes however, like Mariam and Laila, I realized through football that endurance requires mental toughness. In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila live in Afghanistan and are both married to an abusive man named Rasheed. Together, they endure many hardships in their search for a better future.

In many works of literature, it is often a central point for minor characters to have substantial impacts on a novel. Significant minor characters can be seen in other works, such as the Harry Potter series. Harry’s parents play a significant role throughout the series, although their presence is limited to the beginning of the first novel. Minor characters that have a large impact on a story are especially prevalent in Khaled Hosseini’s, “A Thousand Splendid Suns.” This novel depicts a relationship between a mother and daughter that results in years of feeling unworthy, guilty, and hopeless.

She finally perceive the lies he tells, what her mother see. She’s is finally in the home she dreamt of, but not how she outline. Staying there she saw what goes around, all the stuff she missed out on. Still upset by the abandonment from Jalil, she stayed concealed in her room. The consolation fails for Mullah Faizullah, Mariam still feels like it's her fault for leaving to Herat, ["I shouldn't have left her.”] is what she tells him. Furthermore, Mariam meets up with Jalil and his three wives. One of the wives straightforward tells Mariam "You have a suitor; Akhasiegar”. Jalil’s wives talks about an arranged marriage for Mariam, surprised she looks at Jalil. Mariam is in a pressured moment where she pleads for Jalil’s protection and words. Jalil stays quiet, letting his wife deal with his child. All trust is lost, the relationship between Mariam and Jalil have crushed into ashes. Later Mariam future husband Rasheed enters, a shoemaker. Rasheed and Mariam takes the bus, there is a point where Jalil and Mariam have a counteraction. That moment shows that all of Mariam, is dead from the pain and hurt, anguish; Jalil caused all the trust and love she put into him. Her mother informs her many times, Jalil lifts her up and Nana says one day he would drop

Khaled Hosseini shows the defects in a society based on male authority through the use of Mariam’s maturing perception of the world, through Laila’s perspective as she undergoes dramatic changes in the course of her life, and through the third person narrative voice of the entire novel. Firstly, as Mariam learns that Jalil is two-faced, her perception of the world seems to mature. After Nana’s suicide, Jalil attempts to console Mariam, but she doesn’t buy it: “…Mariam could hear him with Nana's ears. …the insincerity that had always lurked beneath, the hollow, false assurances.” (Hosseini 36). What this shows is that Mariam now sees through Jalil’s facade and could feel the insincerity beneath the surface, through ‘Nana’s ears’. After this point, Mariam’s perspective rapidly matures as she begins to realize that there was a darker side to Jalil character, and that his actions were a product of a male dominant society.

This aspect puts the mystery in the book which makes the reader to keep wanting to read more. In this book the driving force is the relativeness, for me I think this book can help me understand alot about my own culture and the challenges that women in my community face. Like Khaled Hosseini's previous work “Kite Runner” he focused on the father-son story in “Thousand Splendid Suns” hosseini creates the plot on the mother-daughter relationship. This relationship of Mariam and her mother Nana show sorrow, naiveness, struggle and love. Their relationship also hooks the reader into the book because it covers many different aspects of their relationship and not just one. The main character Mariam is developed through the story as a very naive young girl who has just started to understand things around her and her relationships with