The walls of a library enclose on thousands of novels that contain fictional and non-fictional stories‚ which depict the world outside the walls in some way shape or form. Each and every novel has a unique set of characters‚ themes‚ symbols and conflicts that are carefully intertwined together by an author attempting to give his audience a source of entertainment and an insight to the human condition. It is on the reader’s shoulders to correctly interpret the author’s message by analyzing it through
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1In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini connects with violence that the Taliban forces. Rasheed treats Mariam and Laila like property and violence carried out is acceptable by the law. This story faces many events of Mariam and Laila being beaten and treated disrespectfully. These events show how the life of living in Afghanistan would be in this time. Rasheed shows violence many times in this book by abusing or wiping his wife’s. His violence is show in scene when Mariam makes
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Hosseini’s novel‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ is an impressive novel about the lives of two Afghan women who share the same tribulations and hardships of living in a country that is oppressed by war‚ as well as being unjustly denied their rights and freedoms. Hosseini does a commending job of looking into the insight of women living under these situations; this causes readers to feel sympathy and heartache for the characters’ unwarranted life circumstances. The themes of A Thousand Splendid Suns’ are portrayed
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Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan have seen three decades of Anti-Soviet Jihad‚ civil war and Taliban tyranny. They have lived through unimaginable horrors and now‚ their incredible stories of hope and oppression are being told. In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra‚ the women are oppressed by their husbands and society. Mariam is passive and compliant while Zunaira is defiant and angry‚ yet both suffer the same pain and isolation. Initially
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In A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Hosseini establishes Mariam as a powerless‚ young woman‚ set to marry a cold‚ abusive husband to demonstrate the easy oppression against women in a man-ruled culture. While Rasheed‚ her husband‚ is seen as important in his own eyes‚ Mariam is treated as an object for him due to her social status as a woman‚ than as an equal to him. In the end Mariam breaks out of the social norms of by uniting with another woman to achieve what she most desires‚ freedom‚ and gives up
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marriage quite differently‚ especially in India‚ Pakistan‚ and Afghanistan. To have an arranged marriage at a young age is considered the “norm” for many cultures since there is very little freedom for women to choose who they want to wed. In A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Mariam is definitely hesitant about marrying Rasheed – shaking as she even struggles to say “yes” to Mullah when he asks her if she agrees to take Rasheed as her lawfully wedded husband. As she is rushed into an arranged marriage by her father
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In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini‚ the character Nana who is Mariam’s mother has gone through some type of hardship in her past. Nana mentions “There is nothing out there for her. Nothing but rejection and heartache. I know‚ akhund sahib. I know’” (Hosseini 18). Nana repeats the phrase “I know”‚ which indicates that she has gone through something similar. Nana had grieved through physical‚ mental and emotional sufferings. Physical suffering is a sorrow feeling inside. Nana has experienced
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To persevere is to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty‚ obstacles‚ or discouragement and continue consistently. Throughout the novel‚ it is present how much women struggle. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women‚ but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. Mariam‚ from the moment she was conceived‚ endured hardships because of the fact that her Mother was not married to her Father‚ thus making her a harami (bastard)
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wanting to belong can be felt. Following these characters through their hardships and destitutions‚ their burdens and wishes become illuminated. Khaled Hosseini integrates the theme of belonging into A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hosseini weaves the theme of belonging through Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Mariam wants nothing more than to have a true family to belong to. However‚ even her own mother adds to her shame by calling her a harami‚ and reminding her that she was unwanted even from the beginning
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Taliban’s rule made actions‚ such as‚ Rasheed’s abuse be legal in societies eyes. Furthermore‚ the relationship of Laila and Mariam is built through the developments of their home cities and how war affected their lives. The setting of A Thousand Splendid Suns allows aspects of society to be applied to the homes of Afghanistan families. When the novel introduces the Taliban’s arrival many people believe they will settle the peace and end corruption in the
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