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Critical Analysis Note
for A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Sherri Tian
Mrs. Wilkin
ENG4U1-02
November 31, 2012
Title
The title, A Thousand Splendid Suns, comes from a poem by an Iranian poet Saibi Tabrizi:
Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls
In each chapter of the novel, there seems nothing can be related to the title. But think deeply, every events and women characters is trying to show us that what kind of dark life they are going through and what kind of country they are live in. All they need is the strength like suns that can save them from the plight and light up the country. In chapter 33, Laila clings to Rasheed's arm to stop him and agrees to have sex with Rasheed to protect Mariam. Laila and Mariam are no longer enemies. Later in chapter 45, when Rasheed is going to kill Laila. Mariam uses a shovel and swang at Rasheed deadly. At this moment, both Mariam and Laila shows their strength and courage that forever change their fate. These inner strength are like a thousand splendid suns, light up people’s hope and the country.
The title seems little ironic as well. Hosseini leaves us a question to think about after we finish the whole book and come back to look at the title: What kind of country need a thousand splendid suns to light it up? Or it is so dark that no matter how hard people try, it still won’t change.
Paraphrase
The two main characters, Mariam and Leila, are two mere average people in Afghanistan, a Midwestern country where the God of peace seldom visits. Mariam, an illegitimate child who lost her childhood on her fifteenth birthday with her mother’s suicide and once loving father’s cold shoulder, was eventually compelled to marry a middle-aged shoemaker, Rasheed, who was extraordinarily 30 years
Critical Analysis Note
for A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Sherri Tian
Mrs. Wilkin
ENG4U1-02
November 31, 2012
Title
The title, A Thousand Splendid Suns, comes from a poem by an Iranian poet Saibi Tabrizi:
Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls
In each chapter of the novel, there seems nothing can be related to the title. But think deeply, every events and women characters is trying to show us that what kind of dark life they are going through and what kind of country they are live in. All they need is the strength like suns that can save them from the plight and light up the country. In chapter 33, Laila clings to Rasheed's arm to stop him and agrees to have sex with Rasheed to protect Mariam. Laila and Mariam are no longer enemies. Later in chapter 45, when Rasheed is going to kill Laila. Mariam uses a shovel and swang at Rasheed deadly. At this moment, both Mariam and Laila shows their strength and courage that forever change their fate. These inner strength are like a thousand splendid suns, light up people’s hope and the country.
The title seems little ironic as well. Hosseini leaves us a question to think about after we finish the whole book and come back to look at the title: What kind of country need a thousand splendid suns to light it up? Or it is so dark that no matter how hard people try, it still won’t change.
Paraphrase
The two main characters, Mariam and Leila, are two mere average people in Afghanistan, a Midwestern country where the God of peace seldom visits. Mariam, an illegitimate child who lost her childhood on her fifteenth birthday with her mother’s suicide and once loving father’s cold shoulder, was eventually compelled to marry a middle-aged shoemaker, Rasheed, who was extraordinarily 30 years