A Thousand Splendid Suns Theme Of Violence
1In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini connects with violence that the Taliban forces. Rasheed treats Mariam and Laila like property and violence carried out is acceptable by the law. This story faces many events of Mariam and Laila being beaten and treated disrespectfully. These events show how the life of living in Afghanistan would be in this time. Rasheed shows violence many times in this book by abusing or wiping his wife’s. His violence is show in scene when Mariam makes undercooks rice. “What’s the matter?” he mewled, mimicking her. “What’s the matter is that you’ve done it again.” “Get up,” he said. “Come here. Get up.” He snatched her hand, opened it, and dropped a handful of pebbles into it. (103) “Put these in