In my opinion, Hosseini utilizes the absence of women's voices in the novel to reinforce the lack of women's rights in Afghanistan. Conforming to our class discussions, we learned that during Taliban rule, women were stripped of their basic human rights. Tragically, women were abolished from the workforce, girls were banned from school, essentially imprisoning women within the four walls of their homes. Instead, women were more often seen as “objects” or sexual tools. This is conspicuous in the way the soldiers taunt Hassan about his mother, “I knew her real good. I took her from behind by that creek over there” (Hosseini, 7). The author accurately depicts the mistreatment of women by muting them out of the novel. In addition, Amir scarcely