Friday, March 30, 2012

Assignment #4

                In the vivid and catastrophic novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini, Mariam experiences a rough childhood as she is constantly lied to constantly from the person who she trusts the most.  Mariam wishes to see her father and impatiently waits for him when he visits her on Thursdays.  Explain one of the motifs in which Mariam childhood is maliciously ruined after the discovery of who her father really is behind all the "rich lies".  Discuss the thematic implication of the experiences that poor Afghan females have to go through.