Thousand Splendid Suns
The novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is divided into four parts.
Part one is mainly about a girl named Mariam who later met briefly a cheerful young mother of two boys Ahmad and Noor, Fariba. The second part is introduced by Fariba’s daughter, Laila. Laila is an ethnic Tajik born in 1978, and is a very intelligent, beautiful girl with aspirations to finish school and be as her father, Hakim, who is a teacher and university educated.
Everything changed when Laila's brothers, who she did not even think of as brothers rather as strangers, left home for war. Laila's mother became depressed and spend all the time in her bed. Fariba didn't pay much attention to Laila, and all she would talk about was how her sons would be good, educated people if they didn't leave. Later in a story the war came even to Kabul, city they lived in, and after Laila's good friend, Tariq, left their country, Laila and her parents decided to leave too. Unfortunately as they …show more content…
She had no other choice but to do so in order to survive. She gave birth to her first child, Aziza. Laila had a sentiment from her childhood about not loving the last child, that she was to her mother. She thought if she could love the same way her child with Rasheed. One time the author said: “ And yet she had to wonder (...) if indeed she could ever love Rasheed’s child as she had Tariq’s. In the end Laila couldn't do it. It wasn't the fear of bleeding to death that made her drop the spoke, or even the idea that the act was damnable- which she suspected it was. Laila dropped the spoke because she could not accept what Mujahideen readily had: that sometimes in war innocent life had to be taken. Her war was against Rasheed. The baby was blameless. And there had been enough killing already. Laila had seen enough killing of innocents caught in the cross fire of enemies” (Hosseini
Part one is mainly about a girl named Mariam who later met briefly a cheerful young mother of two boys Ahmad and Noor, Fariba. The second part is introduced by Fariba’s daughter, Laila. Laila is an ethnic Tajik born in 1978, and is a very intelligent, beautiful girl with aspirations to finish school and be as her father, Hakim, who is a teacher and university educated.
Everything changed when Laila's brothers, who she did not even think of as brothers rather as strangers, left home for war. Laila's mother became depressed and spend all the time in her bed. Fariba didn't pay much attention to Laila, and all she would talk about was how her sons would be good, educated people if they didn't leave. Later in a story the war came even to Kabul, city they lived in, and after Laila's good friend, Tariq, left their country, Laila and her parents decided to leave too. Unfortunately as they …show more content…
She had no other choice but to do so in order to survive. She gave birth to her first child, Aziza. Laila had a sentiment from her childhood about not loving the last child, that she was to her mother. She thought if she could love the same way her child with Rasheed. One time the author said: “ And yet she had to wonder (...) if indeed she could ever love Rasheed’s child as she had Tariq’s. In the end Laila couldn't do it. It wasn't the fear of bleeding to death that made her drop the spoke, or even the idea that the act was damnable- which she suspected it was. Laila dropped the spoke because she could not accept what Mujahideen readily had: that sometimes in war innocent life had to be taken. Her war was against Rasheed. The baby was blameless. And there had been enough killing already. Laila had seen enough killing of innocents caught in the cross fire of enemies” (Hosseini