Quotes From A Thousand Splendid Suns

Everyone in their life experiences a tragic event that brings them pain and hopelessness. After the event occurs we never realize what caused it. In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini we see that one little decision Mariam makes causes a large turning point for the whole book. Everyday people make many decisions, some have little impact on them, like what outfit to wear on a certain day. Other decisions, which are made without thought, can make large impacts. As Mariam waits for Jalil she finds herself very bored, “She watched a caterpillar inching along the foot of an immature thistle,” her boredom shows that her home can be very dull (30). One of the reasons she decided to leave, “for the first time in her life, headed down the hill for Herat,” was because she wanted an adventure (30). Living with Nana in a small house outside of Herat with nothing to do can be very unentertaining. Mariam was able to believe everything Jalil had been saying because she had not been anywhere outside her home. Mariam had waited for Jalil for a while, “she waited until her legs were stiff,” which shows that she believed everything he said, she believed that he was gonna come (30). As she is about to leave, “she rolled up the legs of her trousers to the knees,” we know that she is not thinking about the consequences of her actions (30). By just
Without Mariam leaving she would not have ended up how she did. By not leaving, her mother would have never hung herself, she would not have married Rasheed, she would have not met Laila and then killed herself for Laila. The timing when Mariam left is also important because if she had left years later Rasheed might have not needed a wife and Jalil might have kept her with his family. Mariam leaving decided her fate and marked a huge turning point in her life. With just one little decision to cross the stream made life changing