A Thousand Splendid Suns Essay

Summary:
Mariam lived her entire childhood in a small shack with Nana and was constantly visited by her father, Jalil, whom she adores and looks up to. When Mariam asks jalil to let her see a film in his cinema with her siblings, he agrees, but does not come to greet her and sends his chauffeur to drive Mariam back to her shack where she finds Nana hanged. Due to Jalil’s pride, he refuses to take her under his care due to the fact that she is an illegitimate child and marries her off to a shoemaker named Rasheed. He treats her with much kindness and respect until they attempted to have a child and failed after seven tries, he began abusing and mistreating her. Meanwhile, Laila, the girl who lives a few doors down Mariam’s house, is primarily
Although the situations the characters were put through due to war had high costs, they managed to persist through the drastic changes in their lifestyles. Throughout the book, warfare has played a vital role in the structure of society, unity of family, and daily lives of people. As war progressed, the government’s oppressive rulings and their enforcement of the law increased. Uprisings and rebellion began, and as a result, violence sparked among the populace becoming a part of every citizen's life. Babi states, “Fariba, all these people know is war. They learned to walk with a milk bottle in one hand and a gun in another. (2.24.159)” Instead of living comfortably among one another, a lack of trust began developing causing people to be suspicious about everyone and everything around them. With this behavior becoming a social norm, a society with a lack of unity formed causing Afghanistan as a whole to weaken. This causes them to become an easier target during war which only worsens the social situation they are in because the opposing force is able to utilize this separation of people to their advantage. In turn, this causes for the people to experience a much more difficult and testing