Gender Roles In A Thousand Splendid Suns

Social classes are a division of people in a culture by which many factors can play into where one falls. Superiority, jealousy, and hate can form because of social classes. This is formed because of the separation by money, education, or gender. Afghan culture and American culture have both similarities and differences when it comes to social classes. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, social classes are defined by factors such as gender and money. People like Nana and Mariam are in the lower class and people like Rasheed and Jalil are in the higher class because of such factors. Although, American social classes can differ by having an education or talent. Social classes rank in many different ways with both Afghan and

In the story, A Thousand Splendid Suns gender depicts which social class is in, which is different from American society. Afghan people like Nana and Mariam are in the lower class and Rasheed and Jalil are in the higher class because men are dominant in the Afghan society, so they are depicted to be in the higher class. Jalil, who is a man, has a big house with many wives and a cinema. Compared to Nana who is a women, has a little shed away from the city where she is confined. Men are the work force for the family and are expected to take control in the Afghan society. Also, there are different laws for men and women where women stay on the house arrest unless accompanied by a man, and the men go to work. There is no opportunity for women to move up in a higher class. In American social classes, men and women are perceived to have equal opportunities to be in the higher or lower class. Things such as feminist movements and World War I have changed women’s rights and changed the way society views women. Women are now CEOs of companies and a woman is running for president. Afghan social classes are perceived to have male dominance in the higher class but American social classes have a mixed gender role in social

In Afghanistan, the wealthy are in the higher class, such as Jalil. Woman such as Nana have small houses with little money and little contact with the outside world. Money separates these people so far apart, even though they have a daughter, Mariam. Money can separate people in the Afghan culture whether it is between family, friends, or strangers. In American culture, money depicts which social class one is. Hard work and education can bring wealth into one’s life, which can bring someone up in the American social class. One has to work hard to be in the wealthy class in the American society or one can inherit their family value. Wealth can bring one up in a social class in both the Afghan and American social class whether it is coming from family generations or receiving an