Essay One As an avid reader I enjoy different types of books. A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini is one of my favorite books because of its accurate depiction of Afghanistan after the defeat of the Soviet invasion. Unlike the Hosseini story of The Kite Runner‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses on the difficulties that women in Afghanistan faced when the Taliban came to power. The story revolves around two women with a substantial age difference and the personal pain they suffer
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from each other making conflicts or things around them show how they are. Many people in Afghanistan have different beliefs or characteristics based on political or religious beliefs‚ molding them on how they are now. For instance the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by shows how two characters that live in Afghanistan are different because of the political climate in their country. Afghanistan’s climate shapes out how Hakim and Rasheed have different and similar views or thoughts about political and religious
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to find the young girl with striking eyes whom he had taken a photo of many so years ago. Through a tough trip‚ they were able to find the Afghan Girl whose name was Sharbat Gula‚ her story in some ways relates to the story of Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Sharbat lost her daughter who only lived up to eight months before falling ill and passing away‚ Mariam though lost many babies about seven times with Rasheed. Both women in different ways suffered through their many losses. Sharbat lost
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which emphasizes the oppression and hardships the women faced. The hopefulness comes from the women’s actions and ability to continue to persevere towards their freedom. Women must endure much injustice in patriarchal Afghan society. In Thousand Splendid Suns‚ the book takes place in warfare. War is what destroys the soul of women in Afghanistan. War leads to women being oppressed in Afghanistan socially‚ culturally‚ and politically. The women in the novel are seen as oppressed yet hopeful
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. Themes 1) Justice and Penance Although it is not directly apparent‚ one of the strongest underlying themes of the novel is the idea of justice and penance. As the characters lives are inevitably altered by the chaos around them‚ they look to themselves as to why they are being punished. They believe that what occurs is penance for the sins they have committed. The theme is introduced to us by Nana‚ Mariam’s mother‚ when she explains why she built the kolba by herself‚ "Jalil could have hired
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Within Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ and Atwood’s ‘The Year of the Flood’‚ each modern novel’s societies present their central women characters as being enslaved. Whilst each society is entirely different as ‘The Year of the Flood’ is post-apocalyptic and on the other hand ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ follows the ever changing political situation in Afghanistan‚ they both suggest that women are enslaved. The term ‘enslaved’ is defined as ‘a state of subjugation’ in which the oppressor has control
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Khaled Hosseini shows through The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns that whatever happens there is always a second chance that fate gives you to make up for what you have done in the past. Hosseini shows that when family secrets are revealed it will lead to abashment‚ and results in suffering‚ humiliation‚ and pain. In order not to lose hope you have to fight‚ or forgive. This hopeful message of Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns is that although family secrets lead
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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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Book Review of A Thousand Splendid Suns 17th century Afghanistan poet Saib-e-Tabrizi wrote this commendatory poem after visiting Kabul. ‘Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye; Through the bazaars‚ caravans of Egypt pass; One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs; And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.’ In this world there are still many women say that they are suffering unfair treatment and demand for the right to vote‚ the right to manage. But
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Women in Afghanistan are like servants; always abiding to their master. A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ takes place in Afghanistan during the war as the Taliban is taking over. Mariam and other women living in Afghanistan are continuously mistreated by men‚ both husbands and fathers‚ of the country. I believe women in Afghanistan deserve to be treated better by these men; they should not be taken advantage of‚ disrespected‚ and used. I strongly believe Mariam is mistreated
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