A Thousand Splendid Suns is drowns in emotion and events in the characters lives, which creates issues that affects them. The novel starts off with Mariam and the relations between her and her father, Jalil. Mariam haves endearment for her father, she dreamt of living with him. Then there's relation between Mariam and Rasheed, after the betrayal of her father. Throughout the marriage Mariam is the submissive spouse, living in fear. The novel foreshadows, giving a glimpse of a girl name Laila. Laila ends up merging into the lives of Mariam and Rasheed after finding out the love of her life is dead. Relationships can end bad or start off good. With this in mind, the significance of betrayal can either have a positive or negative impact on a person's life or even both. Violation of trust is prime because, without those damaging and hurtful moments , there wouldn't be enjoyable memories.
Betrayal is introduced in the beginning when Mariam leaves her mother, Nana. Nana is a spiteful person who repels the father of her child, Jalil. Mariam is the only thing that Nana had, but now lost. When Mariam leaves her mother, it’s a new experience for her, she sees a different world. Later Mariam is lying outside of Jalil’s house. She feels abandoned and in a deep, cold, core of loneliness.
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She betrays her mother by leaving even when Nana warned her, “I’ll die if you go ... ” even when Mariam was warned she still left. Jalil now betrays her by staying inside, seeing his child outside lying on the ground. Now blindsided, Mariam finds out that her mother commits suicide. Consequently, the result of Mariam leaving is the death of her mother. Going further into betrayal, it’s plenty while Mariam stays with Jalil after Nana’s death. Mariam is finally in the home she dreamt of, but not how she planned. While staying there Mariam saw what goes around, all the stuff she missed out on, what she could of had. Still upset by the abandonment from Jalil, she stayed hidden in her room. While the comfort did not work from Mullah Faizullah, Mariam still feels like it's her fault for leaving to Herat. Furthermore, Mariam meets up with Jalil and his three wives. Jalil’s wives talks about an arranged marriage for Mariam, surprised she looks at Jalil. Mariam is in a pressured moment where she pleads for Jalil’s protection. Jalil stays quiet, letting his wife deal with his child. All trust is lost, the relationship between Mariam and Jalil have crushed into ashes. Later Mariam future husband, Rasheed enters, a shoemaker. Rasheed and Mariam takes the bus, there is a point where Jalil and Mariam have a counteraction. That moment shows that all of Mariam, is dead from the pain and hurt Jalil caused, all the trust and love she put into Jalil is now dead. Her mother warned her because Jalil lifts her up and Nana says one day he would drop her. Later throughout the marriage, Mariam is pregnant with Rasheed’s child. Rasheed is happy, full of joy, suddenly there’s a catastrophe. Mariam is haves a miscarriage while Rasheed haves people over. Instead of comfort, Rasheed is malevolent towards Mariam. Before that Rasheed shows that he cannot retain no endearment. When Mariam cries, Rasheed responds “ That's one thing I can’t stand..[the sound of a woman crying]”. A spouse shows sympathy when another is hurt, what he did not do, instead he is cruel. After six other miscarriages, Mariam is submissive from the temper of Rasheed. Currently, she is self-conscious, finding anyway to please Rasheed but all attempt falls short easily. She is a victim of domestic violence, living in fear everyday because of Rasheed, thinking that she is the problem. Because Jalil, she doesn't have a father figure or a man the suppose to protect her, she belittles herself. It shows when Rasheeds gives the burqa to Mariam and she feels comfortable, she feels invisible. Laila is mentioned later in the book and Rasheed ask her for her hand.
This is when Mariam started getting use to being submissive and start falling [in love] for Rasheed or comfortable. Where she now feels comfortable with Rasheed, later Rasheed tells Mariam to give him the ring because he's marrying Laila. Now Mariam feels like he stab her in the back. The relationship between Mariam and Laila lacks, Rasheed tells Laila that if she needs anything ask Mariam. Mariam feels someone is taking over her territory, another woman taking her spot. That ring symbolize betrayal, Mariam feels like Rasheed is moving to another woman. Laila feels rather provoked towards Mariam, starting off
rocky. Subsequently, Laila is pregnant with Tariq baby; later Rasheed finds out. In the beginning of the marriage, The two encounters intercourse, which Laila fakes as if she gave her virginity away to Rasheed. The consequence would of led to public stoning, if that happen it wouldn't be a Zalmai and not knowing that Tariq is alive. During the pregnancy Rasheed is delighted of the successful pregnancy. Yet Laila gives birth to a beautiful baby girl, Aziza. Rasheed moods changes, being resentful, his son is not replaced. He ignores Aziza, not giving her his time. While this isn’t right, it shouldn't be insolent to Laila knowing that it’s not his baby. Clear to us when Rasheeds tell Laila that it might not even be his. Even though Aziza creates distance between her mother and Rasheed, now friendship starts to merge between Mariam and Laila.
A wound in which Mariam never recovers from is the death of her mother. Mariam discovers her mother hanged herself when the novel states “Mariam caught a glimpse of what was beneath the tree: the straight-backed chair, overturned. The rope dropping from a high branch. Nana dangled at the end of it” (Hosseini 36). Mariam left her mother to see her father, and she never did forgive herself for that. She always felt that her mother’s death was her fault because she left her, and Mariam will never recover from that wound she suffers. When Mariam leaves her mother she realized every thing her mother did for her. This wound she suffers helps her to realize and appreciate the stuff and people in her life. Another unhealable wound Mariam suffers is her 7 miscarriages. In chapter 15 it states “In the four years since the day at the boathouse. there had been six more cycles of hope raised then dashed, each loss, each collapse, each trip to the doctor more crushing for Mariam than the last”(Hosseini 97). Each baby Mariam loses hurts her more and more. The first miscarriage hurt Mariam so much and each baby after the agony increased. Mariam wants to be a mother and she gets excited when she is pregnant, but every time she gets excited all hope is lost when she loses the baby. Although Mariam has all these miscarriages, it
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