A Thousand Splendid Suns Theme Of Violence
1In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini connects with violence that the Taliban forces. Rasheed treats Mariam and Laila like property and violence carried out is acceptable by the law. This story faces many events of Mariam and Laila being beaten and treated disrespectfully. These events show how the life of living in Afghanistan would be in this time. Rasheed shows violence many times in this book by abusing or wiping his wife’s. His violence is show in scene when Mariam makes undercooks rice. “What’s the matter?” he mewled, mimicking her. “What’s the matter is that you’ve done it again.” “Get up,” he said. “Come here. Get up.” He snatched her hand, opened it, and dropped a handful of pebbles into it. (103) “Put these in
your mouth.” “What?” “Put. These. in your mouth.” “Stop it, Rasheed, I’m.” “Now chew,” he said. “CHEW!” he bellowed. A gust of his smoky breath slammed against her face. Mariam chewed. Something in the back of her mouth cracked. “Good.” Rasheed said (104). This scene creates violence because Rasheed told her what she has to do and she could not stop that. In Afghanistan it is okay to take control over women like how Rasheed did. Having multiple women at once in your life is encouraged. Violence revolves around this story because Rasheed knows in order to keep his women loyal he has to use violence. Another piece of violence used in this novel is when Mariam and Laila attempt to flee into Pakistan. “She didn’t want to do it,” Laila said. “I made her do it. She did not want to go” Downstairs, the beating began. To Laila, the sounds she heard were those of a methodical, familiar proceeding. There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten, the thump, thump of something solid repeatedly striking flesh, something, someone, hitting a wall with a thud”(268). When Laila describes how Mariam’s beating was like a methodical familiar. It showed that Rasheed wanted the beating done a certain way because fleeing away from Afghanistan without a man is illegal. Rasheed did not only want her to suffer but he did not care about Mariam. In a normal relationship today the person doing the abuse would be charged with domestic violence and would be sent to jail. “Mariam clawed at him. She beat at his chest. She hurled herself against him. She struggles to uncurl his fingers from Laila’s neck. She bit them. But then they remained tightly clamped around Laila’s windpipe. He meant to suffocate her, and there was nothing either of them could do about it (347). I choose this quote because it explains what the Taliban can do. I compare Laila’s windpipe to a dying human killed by the Taliban. Trying to survive with every last breath. There are many different laws in diverse cultures. Many laws need to be followed or else consequences will take action. As war and violence all over Afghanistan, people soon will adapt to other people as violence. The Taliban changes people just like a person in a dictatorship. The Taliban forces laws that people have to follow. As a person you live in a changed life in Afghanistan.
your mouth.” “What?” “Put. These. in your mouth.” “Stop it, Rasheed, I’m.” “Now chew,” he said. “CHEW!” he bellowed. A gust of his smoky breath slammed against her face. Mariam chewed. Something in the back of her mouth cracked. “Good.” Rasheed said (104). This scene creates violence because Rasheed told her what she has to do and she could not stop that. In Afghanistan it is okay to take control over women like how Rasheed did. Having multiple women at once in your life is encouraged. Violence revolves around this story because Rasheed knows in order to keep his women loyal he has to use violence. Another piece of violence used in this novel is when Mariam and Laila attempt to flee into Pakistan. “She didn’t want to do it,” Laila said. “I made her do it. She did not want to go” Downstairs, the beating began. To Laila, the sounds she heard were those of a methodical, familiar proceeding. There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten, the thump, thump of something solid repeatedly striking flesh, something, someone, hitting a wall with a thud”(268). When Laila describes how Mariam’s beating was like a methodical familiar. It showed that Rasheed wanted the beating done a certain way because fleeing away from Afghanistan without a man is illegal. Rasheed did not only want her to suffer but he did not care about Mariam. In a normal relationship today the person doing the abuse would be charged with domestic violence and would be sent to jail. “Mariam clawed at him. She beat at his chest. She hurled herself against him. She struggles to uncurl his fingers from Laila’s neck. She bit them. But then they remained tightly clamped around Laila’s windpipe. He meant to suffocate her, and there was nothing either of them could do about it (347). I choose this quote because it explains what the Taliban can do. I compare Laila’s windpipe to a dying human killed by the Taliban. Trying to survive with every last breath. There are many different laws in diverse cultures. Many laws need to be followed or else consequences will take action. As war and violence all over Afghanistan, people soon will adapt to other people as violence. The Taliban changes people just like a person in a dictatorship. The Taliban forces laws that people have to follow. As a person you live in a changed life in Afghanistan.