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Hope In Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Hosseini is the founder of the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, which partners with the United Nations Refugee Organization. He leads this foundation with his wife. The goal of the foundation is to reach out to the people his novels focus on. His book, A Thousand Splendid Suns it focuses on children and women. He returned to Afghanistan and was astonished at the destruction of his home country. He has given hope to those who need it most. Even though this may be true, he is unable to help everyone in Afghanistan who is in need. Some may be given the false hope that they too, will be rescued from the never ending cycles of violence and hope described through hi book. This was Mammy’s mindset. She was convinced that her boys would bring the country freedom. Enslaved by hope, Mammy conveys how this ideal is a prevalent force in life and can mold one’s thoughts. Surging through the positive and negative effects of hope, Mammy goes through times of prosperity and desolation. When Laila points this out, “Sometimes Mammy ha[s] good days” (119), Mammy concludes to her …show more content…

And if not hope, it is the absence of hope. This almost completely carves out Mammy’s soul until she was a hollow shell.. She tried to explain this to her only daughter Laila when she explained, “ Mammy’s hand floated up to her chest, tapped there ‘In here, what’s in here. . . You just don’t know.’” (153) Mammy talks about the demons that have taken over her heart, and her mind. She tries to give her only daughter some insight on what is going through her head. Even though, it was obvious what was on Her mother’s heart and mind. It was the boys.Her boys. Explaining this borderline obsession with her sons, Hosseini describes her room, “The walls of Mammy’s room were covered with pictures of Ahmad and Noor.” (122) Advertised all over her room, were pictures of her heroes, her sons, her everything. What was Laia? Nothing compared to her valiant

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