A Thousand Splendid Suns

Every novel or play has their independent, special past events. A thousand splendid suns’ past event is the wars in Afghanistan. From the war of Soviet and Panjshir, the war between each warlord, the Taliban and the United States declared war to Afghanistan; we can feel a kind of real cruel. But only in this environment, the women of Afghans’ strong personality can expose its light to world. The cruel of these wars only can be a foil by the women of Afghans’ world. Mariam and Laila issued a splendid light from they choose love and hated, tolerant and save. The cruel of the women in Afghanistan seemed be destined when she born. They can’t go to school, go to work, expose their faces outside, and go outside without men. They should be marrying with a small age. So they became a tool to the men. They had a low situation in the society, so they must live with humiliation. Patience was their virtue.

Other wise, the war in this book not only a foil, but also a change of the life in Mariam and Laila’s lives. Because of the war, Laila lost her brothers, parents and lover (at the end, we knew that just Rasheed cheat Laila). Laila was a beautiful girl. She had a happy childhood and good education. May be she had a good future, but the war changed many things. When she knew Tariq died, she wanted to killed herself. But at that time, she knew that she had Tariq’ child, so she still had hope to live, even though she married a sixty man. It was a strong contrast between love of mother and cruel of wars. Love of mother was the greatest thing in the world. When Rasheed married Laila, Mariam didn’t feel happy. Because of she didn’t want to change and share the same husband with Laila. Maybe she didn’t want another girl had the same life with hers. At first time, they fight with each other. But they got through the wars, poor, and accepted violence by their husband together, so they changed their relationship. They became like mother and daughter. In other to foster the baby, they worked together and wanted to make a new life in the world with war.
Wars are the worst things in the world. They broke people’s family. In page122, when Laila’s brothers went to joined Panjshir and dead, it made her parents quarrel with each other usually. It made a gap between Laila and her mother. It made a girl feel family warm in other family. What horrible thing for a girl in her childhood. Because the wars, people must make a chose, even they don’t want to. So Laila gave up her Tariq and choose her parents. Destiny always makes fun of people. When Laila thought she can found Tariq soon, her parents died. There is similar with the writer’s writing style. For example, when rocket hit her house, the writer wrote“And now she was flying, twisting and rotating in the air, seeing sky, then earth, then sky, then earth. A big burning chunk of wood whipped by. So did a thousand shards of glass, and it seemed to Laila that she could see each individual one flying all around her, flipping slowly end over end, the sunlight catching in each. Tiny, beautiful rainbows.” This is very beautiful described, but after it we know it describes a cruel environment.

Wars are the worst things in the world. They gave a chance to bad people to cheat others. In page 193, when Laila’s parents died, Rasheed cheat Laila that her lover Tariq was dead. So Laila can’t go lose from Rasheed. Wars were an important reason to help Rasheed. Because the wars, women can’t go out without men. When they outside, they must faced the fires, soldiers, robbers and so on. For example, when they sent Aziza to the special school, Laila wanted to see her without Rasheed, but Taliban beat Laila badly. The same constitution to Laila and Mariam planned run away to Pakistan. They must found a man to help them buy the tickets. So Laila married Rasheed and sharing the same husband with Mariam, even Mariam liked a worker in the house. But she was also the second wife to Rasheed. There was the other reason for Laila married Rasheed, Laila didn’t want Tariq’s child born in a muddled environment and die when it born.

Wars are the worst thing in the world, but after wars, there are many hopes waiting for us. In page 346, when Laila knew America declared war to Afghanistan, she and Tariq gave up all the things and went back to Afghanistan The author Khaled Hosseini suggests that no matter how cruel of the wars, the hope still stand there and waiting for us. This passage exposes a person how much she miss her home, even it destroy by wars. Just the home destroys by wars, so she thought that her home needs her to rebuild. The author used the cruel war to expose how precious of the love about home and family. Only in bad environment, we can see the real love. Laila wanted to make contribution to her home. Because of her family lived there before and her children born there. She lived there, studied there, grew up there and married there; even it wasn’t a good marriage. At that time, America declared war to Afghanistan. Laila choose back to her home and protect it in the wars. For Tariq, he would follow Laila to the end of the world. So sweat of the words! Only these words can show how much he loves Laila.

Wars were the very important factor in this book. Wars can change many things in the world. They changed Laila’s life. They made her separated with Tariq, made her parents died, made her choose a bad marriage and made her come back to home. But they only can change chose and feature which people take. We can found that love always there. It doesn’t change anymore even after wars. The love between Mariam and Laila, between Tariq and Laila, they didn’t change anymore after wars. Even though Rasheed was a bad person in this book, but he loves his son very much. Even he became poor during the wars, he also tried his best to give the best thing to his son. Wars only can change what people choose, but they didn’t change people’s belief and emotions.