A Thousand Splendid Suns Critical Lens Essay
Many people lead a happy life with secrets, which they feel that if exposed, they will be disgraced to the society, to their friends and family. When people are in this situation, they lose hope in themselves. Khaled Hosseini shows through The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns that whatever happens there is always a second chance that fate gives you to make up for what you have done in the past. Hosseini shows that when family secrets are revealed it will lead to abashment, and results in suffering, humiliation, and pain. In order not to lose hope you have to fight, or forgive. This hopeful message of Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns is that although family secrets lead to shame and suffering, the only way to right past wrongs is through forgiveness that leads to redemption.
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What the bad people do to him, Sohrab thinks he is full of sin and people would make fun of him. He is so hurt that he hates himself; he has become a living statute. By this much pain and suffering one goes through, they will hope for a better, time, life and a better zindagi.
Pain and suffering happens to both of the characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Mariam was a Harami (bastard) child, even though she did not know the meaning of the word Harami, but she is hoping to go to her dads house and live with him, her sisters, brothers, and would have a happy life. When Mariam goes to her dads house the outcome is unpleasant:
“I’m here to see Jalil Khan I’m Mariam, his daughter.”…”Let me in the house”
“I’ve been instructed not to, look no one knows when he’s coming back it could be days.” “This is enough. You’ve made a scene.” “Jalil khan says that I need to take you home.”(Hosseini
What the bad people do to him, Sohrab thinks he is full of sin and people would make fun of him. He is so hurt that he hates himself; he has become a living statute. By this much pain and suffering one goes through, they will hope for a better, time, life and a better zindagi.
Pain and suffering happens to both of the characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Mariam was a Harami (bastard) child, even though she did not know the meaning of the word Harami, but she is hoping to go to her dads house and live with him, her sisters, brothers, and would have a happy life. When Mariam goes to her dads house the outcome is unpleasant:
“I’m here to see Jalil Khan I’m Mariam, his daughter.”…”Let me in the house”
“I’ve been instructed not to, look no one knows when he’s coming back it could be days.” “This is enough. You’ve made a scene.” “Jalil khan says that I need to take you home.”(Hosseini