A Thousand Splendid Suns

All over the world, humans express fear and reply to violence in similar ways. Violence and fear are two recurring themes that appear throughout three novels– The Hate U Give, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Zeitoun. While each tells a unique story, their protagonists grapple with the same problem: fear. Angie Thomas’ The Hate U…

In Khaled Hosseini’s book “A Thousand Splendid Suns” we are told the story of two women (Mariam and Laila) who after living their own separate lives in Afghanistan, are joined by fate and end up living in the same house while being married to the same manipulative and abusive man; Rasheed. In A Thousand Splendid…