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    Title Significance: The title of A Thousand Splendid Suns is taken from a poem composed by Saeb-e-Tabrizi. In the poem‚ he compares Afghanistan’s beauty to “a thousand splendid suns.” It is somewhat ironic that this book had the title of A Thousand Splendid Suns when it was about the destruction of Afghanistan. Genre: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a historical fiction novel. Date of Original Publication: 2007 Author: Khaled Hosseini Setting: Herat‚ Afghanistan‚ Gul Daman‚ Murree‚ Pakistan

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    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

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    and his family moved to the United States in the 1980s. In the US‚ he completed high school and went on to get his Medical Degree. He started writing while working published his fist book in 2004‚ which was The Kite Runner. Summary: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a story about two women and their lives in Afghanistan during the invasion of the Soviet of Afghanistan and the Taliban regime. It shows the suffering of Afghan citizens and their sacrifice in time of war. In this story‚ the two women named

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    Through “A Thousand Splendid Suns” Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the struggle in Afghanistan’s society between traditional beliefs and progressive changes‚ specifically as they relate to women’s rights. One aspect of the novel that highlights this struggle is its setting‚ as it takes place during four time periods each at a different stage in Afghan history. Throughout these unstable decades‚ the country’s government went through continuous upheavals with each new government advocating different ideals

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    In the book‚ “I am Malala” the author Malala‚ had many purposes she stressed to portray while writing her story. One of the purposes is to prove her audience to achieve certain goals; one must work hard to reach them. Another purpose she was trying to attain was to demonstrate to everyone how important it is for girls to get an education and girls to not be treated indifferently. The purpose that stood out the most was her attention towards education for girls and rights for women. “It means we want

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    Macbeth is a Shakespearean Tragedy Macbeth is considered to be one of the greatest Shakespearean tragedies written by William Shakespeare. According to A.C. Bradley‚ it is the "most vehement‚ the most concentrated‚ perhaps we may say the most tremendous‚ of the tragedies" (Bradley 333). Macbeth‚ written by Shakespeare is a Shakespearean tragedy because it has a tragic hero‚ mathemata‚ and a hamartia. These three characteristics are crucial to have in a Shakespearean tragedy and prove that Macbeth

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    The novel centers around the friendship between Mariam and Laila. It is split into four parts‚ with a focus on Mariam in the first part‚ continuing Laila in the second and fourth‚ and the relationship between the two women in the third part. Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother. Jalil‚ her father‚ is a wealthy man who lives in town with three wives and nine children. Because Mariam is his illegitimate daughter‚ she cannot live with them‚ but Jalil visits her

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    World Literature 4 September 12 A Thousand Splendid Suns Essay "Women like us. We endure. It’s all we have." Mariam‚ the child of a wealthy man and his house maid‚ lived by this quote all her life. The quote also applies to Laila‚ a woman who was raised in a modern household with education. An analysis of the hardships of women in Khaled Hosseinim’s‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ would reveal that the injustices of society are coped with differently throughout several generations of women

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    Nature vs. Nurture Essay To decide which of the two- nature and nurture- is of more importance is a difficult thing indeed‚ seeing as it sets the Id and Superego of the human race as rivals. The Superego is everything we have been taught how to do- the “right and wrong” things that society has pounded into our brains so that they feel almost instinctive‚ when it’s not; things like picking the one we’d like to marry based on their looks or deciding not to steal candy from a store because it

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    The Deliberations: A Thousand Splendid Suns Emerald Shockley I: The Collection – Textual Passages • She turned to Jalil again. "Tell them. Tell them you won’t let them do this." "Actually‚ your father has already given Rasheed his answer‚" Afsoon said. "Rasheed is here‚ in Herat; he has come all the way from Kabul. The nikka will be tomorrow morning‚ and then there is a bus leaving for Kabul at noon." (Hosseini 57) • “You try this again and I will find you. I swear on the Prophet’s name that

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