Similarities Between A Thousand Splendid Suns And Wuthering Heights

Khaled Hosseini’s and Emily Bronte’s novels, A Thousand Splendid Suns and Wuthering Heights both deal with issues of discrimination that affect the lead characters in the novels, where it be class, gender or race. With this, both writers portray this peril with the experience of growing up. The narratives span across lifetimes and create a real sense of how growing up can affect you in later life, and can be a defining feature in shaping a character.

Hosseini’s depiction of Mariam’s childhood acts a framing part of the novel. The struggles she faces with her illegitimacy follows and emancipates her throughout her life. Mariam was an ‘illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things over people had, things such as love,