Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

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In A Thousand Splendid Suns Part Two, Hosseini acknowledges the importance to continue studying and being a well educated adult. Hosseini states, “Babi had made it clear to Laila from a young age that the most important thing in his life, after her safety, was her schooling”(114). The author is showing how important it is to continue going to school and having a successful career where you can make a difference in society. Babi wanted to see Laila make a great difference in their society. In Afghanistan, the people who provide for their family, have control, and an education are the men. If a women would play the men role, this would flip their society and modernize it. There would be equality between the men and the women who would not just …show more content…

They were considered to be more convienent than the woman. It took many years for woman to be allowed to do the same thing as a man only in America and some other countries. There was always inequality between men and women that women weren’t suited to do a man’s job like being a police officer or a firefighter. In society women were always underestimated that a women could not do the same job as a man or even better. As society is evolving, women are having more opportunities to prove themselves that they can and showing more equality between them. Unfortunately, in several countries women still can’t play that role. Like in Afghanistan and in other countries the men are still ignorant and do not allow their society to evolve and allow women to work or have a career. This quote relates to a larger societal issue because till this day women are struggling to have the same freedom as other women do. There are women who want to continue their schooling but are not allowed to. They have to stay under the man’s orders. It is so difficult for women having trouble with this issue to surpass it. A Thousand Splendid Suns exemplifies the injustice the Afghan women are going