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A Thousand Splendid Suns
The novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is about a friendship between two characters

Whose names are Mariam and Laila. The novel described the perspective of the two women

And their relationship. Mariam lives in a Kolba with her mother. She is the daughter of a wealthy

Businessman. He lived in town with his three wives and nine children. Mariam wanted badly for

her father to take her to see the movie Pinocchio at his theatre in which he never showed.

Mariam left the theatre and went to his home in which he refused to see her and so she slept on

his porch. She returned back home the next morning to find her mother dead due to suicide

because she felt that Mariam had abandoned her. Mariam was forced to live with her father

who arranged a marriage for her with a man whose name is Rasheed. Rasheed is extremely

abusive to Mariam.

Laila is a young girl who is best friends with a boy named Tariq. Eventually the innocent

Friendship turned romantic. War begins in Afghanistan which causes the people to move. Tariq

And his family decided to leave the city which causes the two to physically express their love for

each other. As Laila and her family are preparing to move their home is bombed which kills her

parents and severely injures her. Tariq’s family takes her in and takes care of her. They also

break the news that Tariq was killed which leads to her meeting Rasheed. Rasheed was in search

of a second wife. Laila has 2 kids for Rasheed. Rasheed becomes more abusive to both the

women and eventually tries to kill Laila but Mariam kills him first. Tariq appears at Laila’s

doorsteps in which they rekindle their love and remove all the attention from them Mariam

admits to killing Rasheed in which she is executed. Laila moves on with her life with Tariq in

which she gets oregnant for Tariq and plans on naming the baby Mariam.

2. The reality of the place affects the lives of the people by causing

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