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Courage In A Thousand Splendid Suns

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“A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini, takes place in the city of Kabul. A young women named Mariam was forced into an arranged marriage with Rasheed who she didn’t want to marry. Rasheed was abusive and controlling. Rasheed goes and marries another woman, Laila, and abuses her too. Mariam and Laila don’t get along very well at first but then they realize what he has done to them is horrible. Both started to team up against him because they decided they have had enough of what he has done to both of them. Courage isn’t being Fearless; it is having courage when times are fearful. Mariam showed courage when she ran away from the chauffer because she was fearful when he tried to take her to Jalil. Once Mariam realized that her father allowed her to sleep on the street rather than bring her into his home that it wasn’t a good idea to get in his car. For Example, the driver said "Let me take you home. Come on, dokhtarjo. "Mariam stood up and walked toward him. But then, at the last moment, she changed direction and ran to the front gates. She felt the driver's fingers fumbling for a grip at her shoulder. She shed him and burst through the open gates. (34) Mariam stuck with her gut feeling and didn’t let him take her because she didn’t feel like he was being truthful. …show more content…

She wasn’t letting the same thing happen to someone she cared about. Another example of Courage is, “He'd taken so much from her in twenty-seven years of marriage. She would not watch him take Laila too. Mariam steadied her feet and tightened her grip around the shovel's handle. She raised it, she said his name. She wanted him to see. “Rasheed." He looked up. Mariam swung. She hit him across the temple. The blow knocked him off Laila. (34) Mariam had killed Rasheed because of what he put them through for many

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