ENG4U1 INDEPENDENT STUDY PROFFESOR LIGHT 2011-03-24 In Khaled Hosseini’s‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ the main character Mariam who lacks confidence‚ self esteem and courage becomes a feminist hero as the novel concludes by killing her husband Rasheed to save Laila’s life; her husband’s second wife. In that she breaks the gender stereotype that had been occurring in her childhood due to her judgmental mother then continuing onto her adulthood due to the rules that her husband set for her‚ following
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Theme Analysis Lesson Subject: English Language Arts Grades: 9‐12 Timeframe: Four 45 minute sessions Student Outreach for Shelters (SOS) Program Overview This lesson is designed to deepen students’ analysis of the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. In addition‚ this lesson is designed to provide educators with a core novel connection to the shelter outreach themes of the Khaled Hosseini Foundation SOS program. Preparation Review Lesson Plan & novel
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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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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point which gives a view over wide terrains of history‚ human variety‚ ideas‚ shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is superbly written‚ has a page-turning story. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is superbly written‚ has a page-turning story‚ assnd will help you learn more about Afghanistan. In his follow up novel to The Kite Runner‚ Hosseini has once again created a heartbreaking masterpiece
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CHILD MARRIAGE Women in Afghanistan overcome adversity and oppression from the opposite sex everyday of their lives. They are abused in and outside the confines of their own homes. "In A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini‚ the struggles of women are depicted vividly. Mariam and Laila are born generations apart‚ yet end up getting married to Rasheed. They are both married at the age of fifteen. A marriage in Islam is usually a sacred union of two people who choose to respect and honour
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of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan‚ to many‚ is either the mysterious country in One Thousand and One Nights or “that dangerous cradle of terrorists one must never near.” However‚ through the eyes of two women‚ Hosseini pulls back the burqa and shows us the real Afghanistan—the political instability‚ the religious fanaticism of the Taliban‚ the sexism‚ and most importantly‚ how innocent citizens struggle to cope‚ taking us deep into the culture. A Thousand Splendid Suns
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in both novels would be Mullah Faizullah and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. Both of these characters are similar in the sense that these characters act as a voice of reason and a source of guidance and comfort for the heroines of each novel. In A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Mullah Faizullah‚ Mariam’s Koran teacher‚ provides guidance to Mariam in her times of doubt and trouble by references the Koran and the power of Allah‚ and comforts her after the suicide of her mother by trying to persuade her that it was
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Bibliography: Hosseini‚ khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Penguin‚ 2007. Print.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns To persevere is to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty‚ obstacles‚ or discouragement and continue consistently .A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young Afghan women‚ Mariam and Laila‚ who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political problems and war. Both women have to endure horrific tragedies in their lives but they become one to persevere throughout it all. The women are years apart from each but
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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
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