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A Thousand Splendid Suns Feminist Analysis

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Within thirty-nine years, from 1964 until 2003, there were six eras consisting of King Zahir Shah, Mohammad Daoud Khan’s Republic, communist rule, mujahideen’s conflict after the Soviet troops left, the arrival of the Taliban, and the presidency of Hamid Karzai. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, politics play an important role in women’s rights. It began with King Zahir Shah and Najibullah, with rights that allowed women education and career; later the Taliban took over and ended freedom in women; ending with the Taliban’s surrender following 9/11, again allowing women more rights. Mariam and Laila were affected mostly negatively by the political rules put into place regarding women. According to the Feminist Majority …show more content…

Bush announces war on Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden. The Taliban refused to relinquish bin Laden due to the pashtunwali code of ethics. “The coalition forces have driven the Taliban out of every major city, pushed them across the border to Pakistan and to the mountains in the south and east of Afghanistan. ISAF, an international peacekeeping force, has been sent to Kabul. The country has an interim president now, Hamid Karzai.” (Hosseini, 138-139). The Taliban are pushed out of Afghanistan, introducing safety in major cities and Laila and Tariq’s return to Kabul; where Laila is able to improve the orphanage in which Aziza attended and begin teaching children. When Hamid Karzai is put in charge, he gives females the opportunity of education and career once again and safety to Kabul and other major cities. Women’s rights were impacted by the political alterations. The Taliban took away women’s voice, vision, and mobility; the United States of America’s removal of the Taliban, brought back rights for women. The ISAF repaired Kabul from the Taliban’s impacts on embassies, schools, and hospitals. Laila went from getting an education, to being beaten for walking unaccompanied outside, to teaching female children. The political influences caused women rights to fluctuate between positive and negative

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Chapter 1 Malala (add picture) was shot in the head by the taliban (add definition and picture) because she stood up for her rights for girls education. I feel that all girls should be able to have an equal right for an education. (add quote) I feel that justice shall be served for all girls in all shapes and sizes they deserve the right to go to school and become more than just a housewife or a made or making rugs. When the taliban shot her in the head lots of people were shocked they figured out that the taliban was scared of strong women in pakistan. They might feel as if the women will take their jobs if they go to school they don't want girls to strive, (add definition) they are afraid of them they want them to make rugs and clean up after them and make children they want more men for thier army

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No one thought the Taliban would hurt a child but one day a man shot Malala in the head in her school bus while she was coming home from school. Thankfully she survived, and continued to speak out about her the right for girls to have access to an education. After the Taliban started attacking young girls, Malala decided to give a speech. She named her speech, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Malala did not stand for such cruelty from the Taliban.

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Given the oppressive rule of the Taliban, how could women survive without men in their family? The book The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi and Tamim Ansary, answers that question by the journey of Farah and her mother. Their journey goes from Afghanistan all the way to America. On this trip, Farah and her mom face many hardships, including their physical injuries and losing their family. In Afghanistan and Pakistan women lacked various rights under Taliban rule that limited their freedoms, but conditions have improved since the Taliban relinquished their power, which shows that given the opportunity women can become independent.

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Why did prime minister Stephen Harper extended Canada’s mission in Afghanistan? 7. How did the people of afghanistan feel when war was going on? 8. Is Afghanistan safe now? Research Notes http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/international-campaign-against-terrorism-in-afghanistan/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chekov-feeney-the-tragedy-of-afghanistan http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/now-that-our-war-in-afghanistan-is-over/article17501889/

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Hosseini portrays how this treatment of women was accepted in Afghani culture because men’s superiority was derived from tradition. He depicts a culture in Afghanistan where wives were seen as mere possessions, so their husbands found fault with them for the inconveniences they experienced. Hosseini demonstrates the mistreatment of women in Afghanistan through the multiple examples he provides where men laid blame with women for circumstances beyond the women’s control or for which were not solely to blame for, just as Nana had warned Mariam that they were prone to do. The first instance in which Nana’s statement rings true is when Nana found out for herself how easily women in Afghanistan could be held completely accountable for things that were not solely their responsibility.

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Canada entered the war not just as peacekeepers but as a strong police force acting in union with the American Forces to combat global terrorism, promote human rights, and help a country rebuild. Firstly, Canada helped annihilate terrorism at a global level in Afghanistan though its Joint Task Force Two (JTF2) Operation. Furthermore, Canada went into Afghanistan promoting human rights in hopes of putting an end to oppression in the Middle East. Finally, Canada helped Afghanistan rebuild into a stable, democratic and self-sufficient country. Ultimately, Canada 's participation in the war in Afghanistan has allowed it to become a strong police force that can function as soldiers of a global government through it peacekeeping

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“The movement attracted popular support in the initial post-Soviet eta by promising to impose stability and rule of law after four years of conflict (1992-1996) among rival Mujahideen groups” (Laub). The Taliban began marauding cities after Rabbani refused to step down. Laila tells us about this escapade in the novel, she depicts “for two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they’d settled” (Hosseini 274). The ultimate reason the Taliban was able to gain so much support was because they were united, much like Hosseini illuminates in his novel, “the Taliban had one thing the Mujahideen did not, Rasheed said. They were united” (Hosseini 275).

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This is why we require only one male witness but two female ones” (Hosseini 324). This illustrates that women are considered inferior to men because they are “differently.” In A Thousand Splendid Suns uses Mariam in the court to illustrate that in Afghanistan women are treated differently and have different rights than men. Mariam had committed a crime and her consequence was sentenced to death, she was denied the freedom of speech, she couldn’t say she did it to defend Laila because she was a woman. The man’s word was always taken over the woman in disputes, and Mariam's beatings by Rasheed were considered a legal right in Afghanistan.

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Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns depicts the conflict in Afghanistan through the lens of the country’s oppressed women. At first glance, the novel appears to be a depiction of the appalling injustice and cruelty endured by women in Afghan society. However, the novel expands on the issue of domestic violence to look at the conflict and injustice in Afghanistan as a whole. While A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses on acts of violence and terror, Hosseini’s message may be far more hopeful than the novel’s grim atmosphere may suggest. By examining the conflicts both within a household and in Afghanistan as a whole, Hosseini suggests that anyone can resist and rise above oppression.

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From this quote you can gather that the Taliban do not like the idea of equal rights. Using this quote t is easy to infer that the Taliban think that women aren’t equal to men and think they are only walking wives. However, Parvana’s father says, “ I’d rather see you in a school

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Equality of genders is a basic human right that all should posses. However, in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, the reader explores Afghanistan’s true nature of extreme gender inequality towards women and how it affects all the characters within the novel. The novel explores how within a marriage, women have unequal rights, undergo major amounts of physical abuse, and are emotionally and mentally tormented by their very own supposedly beloved husbands. A marriage is defined as a union of two people as partners in a personal relationship.

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Before the soviet invasion, and before the Taliban made their surface, women’s rights in Afghanistan were in a relatively steady and progressing state. (The Week UK) Under a somewhat stable leadership, the 20th century was a period of advancement for these women. Several reforms were made aimed to improve rights such as education, freedom of press, health care, and others.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns’ was written by an Afghan American writer, Khaled Hosseini. The novel narrates the strength and resilience of two women who endure physical and psychological cruelty in an anti-feminist society. It also demonstrates how The Taliban uses fear and violence to control the people of Afghanistan, particularly females. Throughout this story the novel exposes the way customs and laws endorse Rasheed’s violent misogyny and it tells the tale of two women who endure a marriage to a ruthless and brutal man, whose behaviour forces them to kill him. The protagonist Mariam is a poor villager who lives in a remote area in Afghanistan, in contrast to Laila who is a smart, educated daughter of a schoolteacher.

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Yousafzai first started to speak up for her rights when a mafti wanted her father’s school to close. The mafti had tried to close the school because the school allowed girls to go to school and because he considered it “a disgrace to the community”(Yousafzai 90) Malala Yousafzai was afraid that once she spoke out, she would be silenced by the Taliban just like how the mafti had tried to close her father’s school down. Even though Yousafzai was doubting herself, she continued to fight for

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