Khaled Hosseini's And The Mountains

In the novel And the mountains echoed by Khaled Hosseini there are multiple stories that are intertwined to create one main story with outstretched branches. The characters Pari, Abdullah, Parwana, Masooma, Saboor, Nabi, and Mr. and Mrs. Wahdait are all branches with a different story. With each action of one of these people there’s another that is triggered and inflicts events that will forever stick with the victim.

After Abdullah and Pari are born, their mother undergoes extreme postpartum hemorrhaging which ultimately ends in her death. Pari doesn’t have the same connection of that which her father, Saboor, and her brother, Abdullah, have. She doesn’t live with the hurt and guilt that they do. By this being a factor in their life, Saboor

Inevitably both parents contemplate new methods of prevention, due to their expected child. When Saboor takes Pari early in the morning and tells Abdullah to stay, he’s trying to prevent the inevitable heartbreak he will never forget. Saboor attempts to sooth the pain of his wife and family by making the choice to give up his only daughter to a family unable to produce offspring. By doing this, he’s giving his daughter a chance at a better life and also helping his family to maintain a life that isn’t filled with as many troubles. While on their journey to Kabul the children are told a story that foreshadows the theme of the purpose of the journey. The theme is also incorporated into the rest of the book. When Abdullah puts the pieces of the puzzle back together he realizes that the story and the famous quote “the finger that had to be cut” was translating into his day to day life. Pari was the finger that had to be cut in order to save the family. By having released Pari from a condemned stagnant life, she is able to become a successful woman. The memories

The tale her father told her in the beginning of the story was his way of handling the guilt. Letting it go as he watches his baby girl leave him for the rest of his days. The guilt is a tremendous burden on his shoulders, one he will keep till the end of his days. This guilt also ties in with the second chapter of the novel. When Parwana allowed herself to become enraged by her sister, she struck out in the only way she knew how. To hurt her. Parwana hurt her sister in a way that she suffered from guilt for the rest of her life. She lives with the guilt because she cannot cut her sister out. She allows herself to endure the hardship of nurturing her sister so that she knows the sacrifice she made when she paralyzed her. By allowing Parwana to care for her, she’s making her suffer and live with the guilt of her actions. This ties