Laila In Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

Part two of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini brought very subtle emotions to my recognition. The author proposes Laila as a charming individual who is surrounded by Kabul’s everyday interactions. It stunned me how contrasting Laila’s life was then Mariam. Laila seemed to live adjacent to the city where she has access to modern day beliefs and technologies. As opposed to Mariam, she lived in the more rural area where she tended to many animals,”(find a quote on Mariam feeding chickens.) The areas in which both characters live reveal their distinctive personalities. Laila suffers neglect from her mother, “Mammy lay in bed most days, She wore black. She picked at her hair at her hair and gnawed on the mole below her lip (Hosseini 141).”