A thousand Splendid Suns

I continued my reading with the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini. This was a very interesting part in the book because Mariam was starting to realize that she did not belong in Jalil’s world, and he did not want her there either. Jalil set up a suitor for Mariam, and then a few days later the two were married, and Mariam would be 500 miles form Jalil, far enough so there would not be any trouble. Mariam did not like her new husband; he scared her, smelled of beer and cigarettes, and was about thirty five years older than her. She was not a very good wife, her husband said, and she had to get her act together. She cleaned, cooked, and did everything a wife was supposed to do, in his point of view. I think this is a very important part in the book because it really shows how independent and alone Mariam is. She has lost her mother, her father doesn’t want her anymore, and so she is living with some old, big, smelly, creepy guy. Not the best situation to be in, in her point of view. Overall this book is very interesting and I am waiting to see how she learns to be a wife.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I thought of with my reading of the book titled A thousand Splendid Suns. This is getting very interesting because of Mariam, the child. Mariam is very curious and she really loves her father, Jalil. Her mother, Nana, hates Jalil because the two if them divorced after Mariam was born. Nana is a servant and Jalil a wealthy noble, so the relationship would not work within the two completely different social classes. Jalil comes and meets Mariam at the house once every week, and he always come at the exact time, and always at the exact same spot. One day Jalil doesn’t come and Mariam wants to go down to the town where he lives, just over the hill, and find him. Nana says that if Mariam goes she will not live anymore, she will take her life, because Mariam is the only one that she has. Mariam decides her mother is not serious and walks down the hall. She finds her father’s house, but is not let in, even though he is inside. She sleeps outside to wait and in the morning Jalils butler makes her go home. He takes her into his car, and takes her home. Once they are in her yard, they start walking toward the house, and then the butler yells stay back, but it was too late. Mariam saw her mother swinging from the tree tops, with a rope around her neck. She had told Mariam the truth. I think this is a very important part in the novel because it shows how desperate Nana was and how much she hated Jalil.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

For my outside reading project, I chose to read the book titled A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini. It is a story about Afghanistan’s last thirty years. The main character is a girl called Mariam, and she is a girl, and she was treated very poorly by her family. She was called things by her mother that she never understood until she was older, her mother said that Mariam was a waste of space, and that her mother didn’t deserve a child like her, for all the suffering she has been through. I am not very far into the book yet, but I am very excited to read it because I like Khaled Hosseini’s style. I previously have read the book The Kite Runner and really liked it. This was one of the main reasons that I picked to read this book, because I have previous experience with Khaled Hosseini and his writing, I understand it more. I think this book will be very interesting, also learning about the past of Afghanistan. It is very interesting to learn about the history of the country. All of the past rulers, the good ones and the bad ones, and just the past events that made the country what it is now. I can not wait to keep reading this book and am ready to find more about the character Mariam, and who she really is.