Volume III Special Issue III March 2023

Name of Author : Ms. H Kalaivani, Dr. V Jaisre

Title of the paper : A Thousand Splendid Suns: Revelation of Self

Abstract: The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini could be a narrative told from the views of the two women characters, Mariam and Laila. It shows however they were raised, what they lost as the results of war, and the way within the finish, their strength and enduring hope helped them face their fate. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, war and Taliban tyranny seen from the perspectives of two women. Mariam is that the despised illegitimate girl of a loaded middleclass, forced at age fifteen into marrying Rasheed, United Nations agency grows more and more brutal once she fails to supply a child. Eighteen years later, Rasheed takes another mate, fourteen-year-old Laila, a wise and spirited girl whos solely alternative choices, when her oldsters are killed by rocket hearth, is vice crime or starvation. Mariam and Laila become allies in an exceedingly battle with Rasheed, whose violent abuse is supported by custom and law. The author provides a forceful portrait of despotism wherever girls are addicted to fathers, husbands and particularly sons, the bearing of male kids being their solely path to associate degree accepted social status. every girl within the finish is forced to simply accept a path that may neer be fully happy for them. Through the analysis of the marginalized standing of Afghan girls within the light-weight of the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini we tend to learn that these girls in burka of Afghan stand as an example for each girl within the world stating that their relentless endurance of hope is that the solely key to survive within the world of continuous trials and tribulations. The paper essays to trace the journey of these characters from being somebody vulnerable and deplorable to the decay of their own destiny at the backcloth of the Talibani culture.

Keywords : Polygamy, the Talibans, Burqa, Gender social policy, Purdah.

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Page Number : 41-42