The book A Thousand Splendid Suns was to show the evil acts that happened in Afghanistan in the end of the 1950’s to almost present day. The books author, Khaled Hosseini mainly showed the unjust treatment of the women in Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns vividly describes how the afghan people were tortured. This book has high and low points with many plot twist that will keep most people off of their seats.
In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Laila's actions ruined Mariam's life. Laila married Mariam's husband and caused Mariam to almost get beat multiple times. She convinced Mariam to run away from Rasheed and caused her to get beat, starved, and locked in a shed for 1-2 days. Laila also brought Tariq into the house, when Rasheed found out he almost killed Laila, which caused Mariam to kill Rasheed. Laila ruined Mariam’s life by tricking her husband into marriage and making Mariam feel neglected and almost beat a lot of the time.
& Rider, E., 2018). The parenting types consisted of authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful. Regarding the future success of the children, “...Baumrind found that children raised by authoritative parents were the best adjusted: They were... socially responsible, self-reliant, [and] achievement-oriented...” (Sigelman, C. & Rider, E., 2018).
A Thousand Splendid Suns, tells the history of the last three war filled decades of Afghanistan through the lives of two unsuspecting women. Education is a topic discussed in the novel frequently and effects Mariam's and Laila's lives. The similarities and differences between the two focuses heavily on education. Laila's father, Babi, repeatedly urged the importance of Laila's schooling. While Mariam's mother, Nana, wanted Mariam to stay away from any type of school.
Isaac Lee Mrs. Clowe English 10H 10 April 2024 Title The world is filled with suffering, pain, and death. Society needs hope, courage, and perseverance to overcome its imperfections. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini illustrates the life of Mariam. As she navigates life, she encounters life-changing experiences, including the death of loved ones, oppression, and rejection, requiring resilience and hope to overcome her hardships.
The injustice Mariam endures in the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, leads Mariam on a struggling journey impacting her future path in life. The injustice that Mariam endures leaves a permanent mark on her life and impacts her from the beginning. Life wasted no time throwing the cruel injustices of life at Mariam. Mariam was marked a harami, otherwise known as a child without a father, even though her father Jalil was alive, near, and well. “She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing: that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person that would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance.”
It is a common problem for people to find themselves jealous of somebody they know. While some people will become hostile when interacting with others, others might harness that jealousy to become better people and to motivate themselves to change. Where people struggle is walking along the fine line between being thankful for what they have and being too jealous. Some people will go to the point where they drive to have everything someone else has. Although Hosseini’s novel suggests jealousy worsens people’s behaviors, Achebe’s book asserts that jealousy motivates people to change for the better or the worse.
Chapter 43 of A Thousand Splendid Suns begins with Zalmai misbehaving because he knew Mariam had no authority over him. He stated that he did not like Tariq, and did anything in his power to draw Laila’s attention away from Tariq. Relationships will be affected if Laila and Tariq continued their childhood romance. Zalmai would not be happy, putting a damper on the situation.
The motif of Relationships is prominent throughout The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini uses relationships to develop characters and move plot. “I was Sunni and he was Shia’a” Hosseini continues to use character opposites to express diversity in successful relationships. He does this to emphasize how different ideologies can coexist. This is inspired by his life in Afghanistan living under the Soviets, then moving to the US where people from all races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds live together.
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting,”(Khaled Hosseini.) Through life you endure suffering, and no one knows the true meaning of this than the lives of the people of Afghanistan. In both the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns[ATSS] by Khaled Hosseini and in the movie Kandahar, it shows the struggle in which the Afghani people go through in their everyday life after the reign of the radical Islamic groups. The use of a novel gives detailed information on the lives of the Afghani people although, it makes the reader use their imagination to interpret what the image or author is trying to say. In the film, there is no imagination needed, but yet it doesn’t give the detailed explanation
Throughout the movie, Parenthood, the three main parenting styles were displayed throughout as, the dictator, permissive, and democratic. The dictator form of parenting, also known as the authoritarian parent sets strict rules and guidelines and will not changing them or give any leeway. Children that have authoritarian parents usually have low self-esteem and trouble to do things on their own when they get older. Then there is the permissive parent, who rather than setting rules and guidelines, opts out of this, their discipline is not seen and if they do set rules, they don 't punish when the rules are broken. There is also a balance of good parenting seen in the democratic form.
Power and Corruption When in the wrong hands, power can be used as a weapon to exploit and belittle others. If power is misused, it usually leads to dire consequents, like in A Thousand Splendid Suns, where two women fall victim to those who control them. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini proves that once a person is promoted to a place of authority, he or she will inevitably become corrupted by the power that he or she holds. For power to hold any value, one must be able to generate fear and submission from his victims.
Hakim Laila’s feminist identity was influenced by her father, Hakim. Hakim is mostly referred to as Babi in the novel. Babi was a high school teacher, in other word, an intellectual. Intelligence is devalued by the majority in their society, therefore being a teacher makes Babi an extraordinary person in the novel. Since Fariba, Laila’s mother, was distanced from her, Laila had a special bond with her father.
In regards to the historiography of gender politics in the Victorian era, the social position of women and femininity had become a problematic issue. Similarly, the gender apartheid instilled prior to the civil war in Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, initially published in 2007, is set in Afghanistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. In this, it explores the story of Mariam and Laila as the protagonists, who teach the reader the reality of life as a woman in a backward Islamic country. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny seen from the perspectives of these two women and observes how they become to create a bond, despite having come from previously living in very different backgrounds.
Abstract women have been living very miserable lives throughout the history somewhere because of gender differences and somewhere base on lame excuses of religion. They do not have equal rights, freedom, opportunities as men and have been suffering gender-based violence perpetuated towards them in the male dominated society. Afghan women show great strength and resistance in the face of adverse circumstances. They have developed traumatic problems and in reaction to their problems, they have grown very resilience to the Afghan tradition and men harsh treatment. The research entitled “Trauma and Resistance of Afghan Women: A Critical Study of Khaled Hosseini’s Novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, was intended to critically analyze the novel to explore trauma and resistance of Afghan women.
