A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by Khaled Hosseini and tell the story of women in Afghanistan . The two main characters are Laila and Mariam. Mariam is older and is more of a a traditional woman.Her mother was a servant until she became pregnant with her.The father was the master and he was forced to send her away because his three wives were not very happy about the situation.He built them a little house  outside of the city  and forced his legitimate sons to bring them food every week.Her mother always told her that her father was a coward and was ashamed of her.But Mariam always put him on a pedestal.He would visit her every week and tell her stories about his theater and the exciting thing in the city. Mariam died  to e able to go out and spend time with her father.She even started turning against her mother believing everything her father told her. he even runs away to go see him.When she arrives at is house they wont even let her in and she ends up sleeping outside.In the mourning, they send out their drive to take her home. After struggling she ends up going home and find that her other has committed suicide.She is filled with remorse because all her mother every did was try to protect her and all she did as hurt he mother. She is sent to live with her father who arranges her to be married.he really starts regretting what she has done.I will post more next week.