A Thousand Splendid Suns Endurance Analysis

People endure every single day. Whether physical endurance, or mental endurance, everyone endures. My personal story of endurance is similar Mariam. I was sent to a summer long camp. Much like Mariam, everyday was a struggle in itself. The queasy, sick feeling of missing name, and not knowing what day will bring. When most people are faced with emotional, or physical endurance, they give up. But in the novel A thousand Splendid suns, by Khaled Hosseini, is a story about when you don’t give up. The novel is about a women named Mariam, borna a harabi, who is forced to marry a man she had never previously known. Mariam and Laila use patience, hope, and a strong mental will to endure everyday life.

It takes Mariam and Laila patiences to endure

Rasheed’s abusive ways persevere day. Khaled Hosseini says “...As long as I have my three cups of tea, I can make it. Mariam uses these cups of tea as something to look forward to at the end of the day. As long as she has these simple things to look forward to, she can endure. Mariam and Lailas life is a lot of waiting. Waiting for the unknown, whether or not Rasheed is going to come home angry or forgiving. Mariam describes this waiting as one of the hardest things to endure, “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.” This quote shows a lot of what having patience really is. Just the act of having patience makes enduring itself harder.
Along with having patience, a key component for Mariam and Laila enduring the everyday abuse of Rasheed is hope.

Hope can decide whether Mariam lives or dies each and every day. Hope keeps Mariam alive.“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”(pg 401) Even though Laila has already lost so much, her father and mother and almost lost the love of her life, she keeps on. She continues to wanting to make a difference all because of hope. Hope that she could do something good in this world of bad, with Rasheed and the war. Mariam has a much different interpretation of hope because her whole life she has has to endure.Mariam was taught from a young age to not have hope from her own mother. But when Mariam finds Laila beneath the rubble, she finds hope. Mariam saw Laila as a way to make a change for the better in her life of let-downs. If she can save Laila and her baby, her life was worth enduring all those years with Rasheed and the culba. “But the naming game involves only male names, because if it’s a girl, Laila has already named her.”(pg 367) This quote represents how Mariams hope in saving Laila and her baby(s) has paid off. In result of Mariam having hope that Laila and her will someday find reconciliation in their lives of hardship. Even though Mariam dies for the death of Rasheed, she still lives on like “A thousand splendid suns”(pg 313).

In the book “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, by Khaled Hosseini, Is story about how no matter how bad the situation is, born a harabi, married off to an abusive husband you’ve never met, and dieing at the hand of a terrorist regime, as long as you have hope, patience, and a strong mental will, you just might make something good out of the sea of

bad.