Afghanistan In Ayn Rand's A Thousand Splendid Suns

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the book deals with two female protagonists named Mariam and Laila as they both endured their life time suffering with their own hardships; as Mariam was raised and grew up with her mother who was very miserable and unhappy, to her glorifying her father as she didn’t grow up with him and wanted to share a part of his life with his other family that he built. Mariam then ran away from home to be with her father, however; upon her return from her father’s her mother had committed suicide. As for Laila,. As far as the book goes, there are several teachings of the history of Afghanistan. Moreover, the history of Afghanistan that has been taught in this book has surprise me as I am not too familiar of the history behind

the country. With the political history behind the book such as. The significance of Laila’s childhood trip to see the giant stone Buddha’s above the Bamiyan valley was for Hakim Laila’s father to show her and her mother Faria the place where the Buddhist monks used to live and to bring forth the attention of the values vary from their country of Afghanistan. After the Taliban forbid the “writing of books, watching films, and painting pictures” people still manage to take the risk and watched the film knowing the violence that the Taliban was capable of due to the fact that . Mariam and Laila grew to share a mother-daughter bond after being married to an abusive husband Rasheed, the ways that gave the sense of that type of relationship is the fact that Mariam always made sacrifices that only a mother would do for their child knowing the ramifications that comes with the decision. For example in chapter 39, Laila undergoes labor, however the hospital that they had stopped at was guarded by the Taliban and were informed that the hospital only catered to men. Mariam took it upon herself to ask the