Amir atoned for his sins and was able to earn forgiveness by risking his life and going back to Kabul‚ saving Sohrab and adopting him. Amir’s first act of atonement in this novel is when he risked his life by going back to Kabul. In 2000‚ Rahim Khan asked Amir to go visit him in Pakistan. When Amir went back to visit him‚ he found out that Hassan was dead and Hassan’s son was somewhere in Kabul. Rahim Khan wanted Amir to rescue Sohrab and bring him back to Pakistan. However‚ after learning that
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describes life growing up with a powerful political figure for a father‚ she goes on to describe many crazy situations in her life such as almost being killed multiple times‚ the violence in Kabul‚ and the loose border with Pakistan and Afghanistan. We had the privilege to speak with a man named Tarik who grew up in Kabul‚ he had some interesting things to say about Koofi‚ in that her book was very bias towards Americans. He shared with us that there actually was no loose boarder and some terrible rumors
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CHAPTER 21 NOTES List 3 major events that take place within the chapter Amir visits his old house in Kabul and the hill north of Baba’s house- The city is now completely unfamiliar to Amir‚ and he looks at it almost as a tourist Amir looks outside his bedroom window and remembers looking out of it when watching Hassan and Amir leave. “Twenty-five years earlier‚ I had stood behind that same window‚ thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. I had watched Hassan and
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Rahim Khan as he narrates about the life he and Hassan were living while Amir and Baba were in America before the narration was passed back to Amir. 2. Plot • Introduction – The childhood memories of when Amir and Hassan were still boys‚ living in Kabul. • Rising action – The raping scene of Hassan by Assef and his lackeys that was witnessed by Amir after the kite flying competition. • Climax – When Rahim Khan calls and requests Amir to visit him in Pakistan which resurfaced Amir’s buried past.
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CHARACTERS MARIAM: She is the main character of the story. She was born illegitimately to a wealthy man of Herat and one of his housekeepers. She tries to force her father to acknowledge her as his daughter‚ but it leads to the heartache of her mother’s suicide and her own arranged marriage to Rasheed. She lives with him many years as an abused wife until Laila becomes his second wife. They establish a fast friendship and Mariam eventually kills Rasheed as he is choking Laila to death. She is
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Amir is raised in a traditional culture with clearly defined rules; highly patriarchal‚ gender roles are strictly followed and constrain much of family life. Similarly‚ racial hierarchy is so ingrained as to be something of a caste system. In Kabul‚ it is common for people to believe that Hazaras are lesser than Pashtuns. This belief system can be seen when Amir describes his relationship with Hassan‚ “I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara. . . and nothing was ever going to change that” (Hosseini
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political participation and the freedoms of movement‚ speech and dress (they no longer had to wear the burqa). Women were guaranteed a percentage of seats in both the upper and lower legislative houses. Even the first women-managed radio station in Kabul came on air. Sima Wali provided her insight and her opinion on why she feels women’s oppression has been liberated. However an opposing argument made by Noy Thrupkaew explains why he feels women have not been completely liberated. Noy states that
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However‚ the forced marriage is not the last of the troubles Mariam had to face as a woman. Being the wife of an abusive man in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule made life extremely painful and arduous. Even the years before the Taliban arrived in Kabul‚ Rasheed was physically‚ mentally‚ emotionally‚ and verbally abusive to Mariam. For eighteen years before Rasheed married Laila‚ Rasheed abused Mariam to the extent where nothing pleased him. Rasheed had a very short temper and would ridicule and then
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Often times a person’s wishes do not match up with what fate has in store for them. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ one witnesses the trials and tribulations of two women morphed by circumstance and war. Khaled Hosseini expertly illustrates what it means to search for justice that both Mariam and‚ specifically‚ Laila try to do as women in Afghanistan during a time of war. Through the deaths of loved ones and an abusive marriage‚ Laila comes to realize that she does not always have to rely
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Although the story of two women under oppression in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule may seem distant and irrelevant‚ Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns (418 pages) is a heart-wrenching historical novel that delves into the intertwined lives of Mariam and Laila‚ two women married to the same abusive husband‚ and the struggles they face. The novel takes place in Afghanistan‚ beginning in the 1960s with Mariam’s childhood and ending in the early 2000s with Laila and Tariq’s reunion. Poverty
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