Sacrifice In A Thousand Splendid Suns

Since I’ve been a little girl my mom has always told me to make sacrifices because than those sacrifices will make me a stronger person and will make me think in a better way. That life is not all about wanting something it is about giving also. Some people don’t understand how sacrificing makes someone a stronger person and that when sacrificing something enhances us as a human and in life. In a thousand Splendid Suns a novel by Khaled Hosseini two girls with a different life background come together and go through harsh times that make them endure. To endure life with little freedom and stability in one’s world, it takes patience, friendship and sacrifice. Mariam enhances Rasheed’s anger with patience.When the years past , Mariam has grown
Mariam was living with her mother Nana out of the city. Nana was always sacrificing every little thing for Mirima but she never notice what her mom was doing for her. Until one day when Mariam decides to go looking for her had without caring for what Nana was going to say. Jalil, Mariam’s dad didn’t let Mariam into his house, Mariam was extremely upset and left home but before she went looking for her dad, Nana said to Mariam that if she leaves she was going to kill herself: “ The rope dropping from a high branch, Nana dangling at the end of it” ( Hosseini 36). That day Mariam realizes that Nana kill herself for her, she has just sacrifice her life for her daughter because her daughter was the love of her life. Over the years of not having Nana by her side and she being gone Mariam now knows how much Nana sacrifice. Nana went through many obstacles while having Mariam. She didn’t give Mariam away, Nana endure the shame and she was loving Mariam in her own way. When Mariam was seeing that Laila was sacrificing her life for her baby when she was giving birth Mariam thought “ruefully of Nana of the sacrifices that she too had made”( Husseini 287). Mariam now knew what mothers sacrifice for their