Category: A Thousand Splendid Suns

With reference to wider reading, explore and compare Margaret Atwood and Khaled Hosseinis sociological representation of religion and its impact on womens treatment in The Handmaids Tale and A Thousand Splendid Suns. In both texts, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Handmaids Tale, both writers explore the exploitation and mistreatment of women for the benefit…

The purpose of this study to reveal the main characteristics of women, that how women are oppressed in our society and how they are facing challenge daily in their personal and professional life. According to the novel of Husseini, he declares the real version of women and portray the story that how the two characters…

Introduction A Thousand Splendid Suns is a work of realistic fiction based on Khaled Hosseinis trip to Afghanistan. The story is set in Afghanistan between the early 1960s and early 2000s and features two main protagonists. The first is Mariam, a quite, thoughtful child at the start of the book. Born out of wedlock to…

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a moving novel written by Khaled Hosseini, being set in Pakistan. Amid the infamous rule of the Taliban, two women, Mariam and Laila, live under the oppressive roof of their husband, who brutally beats them both verbally and physically. Throughout this book, a strong bond is established between the two…

Major characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns are Mariam, Laila, Rasheed, and Tariq. Secondary and supporting characters can be seen in this book as the parents, friends, and children of our main characters. Mariam is the first main character that we get to know in the book. Her beginning story is that of an illegitimate…

Dystopian Societies and Female Oppression: An Overview The protagonists in both The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini suffer in the societies in which they exist. Similarly, the theme of religious oppression underpins the suffering of the female protagonists in both the fictitious, dystopian society of Gilead in…

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini. In 2007, the year of its release, the book has already taken the attention of many by becoming number #1 New York Times bestseller. The story is about 2 young girls, Mariam and Laila, having to deal with their cursed fate. The story takes…

Miriam is a fifteen-year-old Afghani girl who has had a troubled upbringing. Mariams mother, Nana, was a housekeeper for a very wealthy man named Jalil. Nana became pregnant with Jalils baby, Miriam, and has suffered great shame. She and Mariam had to move out of town into a very small cottage, away from Jalil and…

Following Hosseinis original best-selling novel The Kite Runner, a novel exploring the journey of self-discovery of a young boy named Amir, A Thousand Splendid Suns pictures the stories of Mariam and Laila, two young women who live in the country of women and face heavy discrimination for being women throughout the novel. The country of…

For years, sociologists have been developing various theories as to when and how an individual becomes an adult. In sociology, the topic of adulthood is very contradictory, as it can be perceived in different ways. Many sociologists believe that an individual must face psychological, biological, cultural-sociological, and environmental factors that will influence a person’s development.…