Meaning In Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

When I first read Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, I felt as if I was suddenly hearing the wind flowing in the dust around from a windstorm in Afghanistan and being put into the dark shadows of two young girls. Throughout the to the 60s to the late 2000s, what every citizen experienced was torment, most certainly if you were a female. Why in a place like this is a certain gender group treated with such agony? This novel spotlights the importance of these people's suffering and recognizes the reason behind this iniquitous misconduct. Personally, when I was first handed this book I thought I would be very dispassionate with the plot of the story. I suspected that the novel wouldn’t be my cup of tea because I don’t read a lot,

Mariam, a young, resilient girl raised in a small hut outside the city of Herat, is the daughter of a very strict, shameful, authoritarian mother called Nana, and a successful and wealthy businessman named Jalil. When Mariam becomes fifteen, she’s forced to marry Rasheed, who abuses her and uses her to produce him a son. Several years later, fourteen year old Laila, a resourceful young girl raised by caring authoritative parents, is also forced into marrying Rasheed after her parents and brothers are executed from dealings with the war. While both being Rasheed’s wives, Mariam and Laila both become a duo in a controversy with Rasheed whose rough mishandle is accepted by the system and regulation. Hosseini gives a commanding picture of dictatorship where females are underlings of the males in their society. Every female at last is compelled to acknowledge an approach that will never more be buoyant. Mariam and Laila both will have to carry out the corruption of Rasheed’s doings. Do you think that they will both be fortunate? Will Laila and Mariam be set free and break the boundaries like no other woman during their time

The story didn’t seem like my cup of tea. I have changed that now that I have read and finished the novel. It seems rather interesting how other citizens live and are treated. Even for a person like me, who loves writing more than reading, I’d recommend this book to anyone that is around the age Laila and Mariam are in the book. This specific age group can relate to the feelings these young ladies had. I appreciated reading this book. It enlightened me on how lucky I am to be where I