Therefore I will explain some important current events in Afghanistan specially about the women. Afghanistan can be a hard and cruel land for women and girls. First we have an article published on March 3, 2009, the title said about "Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection". That information is about Marian and other girls in Afghanistan. Marian was 11 years old and her parents forced her to marry a blind, 41 years old.
You could tell Lily was afraid of her father, seeing how she hesitated to tell him about events such as her birthday. Lily was also born and raised in rags, since her mother died when Lily was at a young age. After her mother died, Lily was stranded with a confused and angry father, and had to sew her own clothes, since it is all she had. These two stories already look the same, and both are only a fraction of the way in. Huck’s life was extremely terrible until he starting living with the Widow Douglas, which is the equivalent of when Lily went to live with the Boatwright sisters.
Mariam, the elder of the two, is ‘a harami’ the illegitimate daughter of Jalil, a prosperous businessman and one of his housekeepers. After a tragic death of her mother, when Mariam is only 15, her father marries her off to Rasheed, a much older Kabul shoemaker. After a few relatively peaceful years, after it becomes apparent that Mariam will not bear Rasheed the son he expected, his behavior escalates into constant verbal and physical abuse. At this time her life intersects with Laila’s, whose parents were killed in a rocket attack, as the family was preparing to flee the country to Pakistan. When Mariam and Rasheed come to the girl’s aid, she is approximately the same age as Mariam at the time of her marriage to Rasheed.
Trigger-Happy Birthday The author, Kiku Adatto wrote this essay. Adatto describes her own experience with paintball birthday parties for children. She has twelve-year-old son and her son received a brightly colored invitation to a friend’s birthday party, which was being held someplace called Boston Paintball. And a few days later, she received more somber missive. So that she did not let her son go to his friend’s birthday party because she thought it is not really safe for her son.
An-Mei’s mother, who has no value, “no face”, no name, for she has no identity of her own, inaugurates her journey when she departs into Wu Tsing’s mansion as a fourth wife, the lowest position in his household (46). She was tricked into becoming the fourth wife of Wu Tsing. Wu Tsing’s wives could not bear him a son and he became impatient, so treacherous Second Wife arranged An-Mei’s mother to become Wu Tsing’s third concubine and fourth wife. Wu Tsing raped An-Mei’s mother, and she was viewed as a traitor to her husband by her family. Her family disowned her and banned her from the family house.
Pachisia 1 Sakshi Pachisia May 7, 2013 Mrs. Dittmar ENG4UO The Role Of Women In An Evolving Afghan Society In South Asia exists “a land of tragedy called Afghanistan” (Joya 1). Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is based in this war-torn country. The novel is told from the viewpoints of Mariam and Laila. The two Tajik women differ greatly in age and lifestyles but their lives get intertwined when they end up in a polygamous relationship with Rasheed, a Pashtun shoe store owner. The novel is set over a time period of about two decades; in order to comprehend it accurately, readers must understand the politics of Afghanistan over this time period.
Gurnoor Babra ENG2DO Cave-Williams June 1st 2013 A revolting place “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, is a story written by Khaled Hosseini that focuses on the lives of two blossoming afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and conquer many mishaps presented throughout the book. To persevere is to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no indication of success. Both Laila and Mariam have suffered greatly partly because of their gender; nevertheless still have managed to produce the strength to persevere. Despite the fact that the age difference of Laila and Mariam are a few years apart also have different styles of living, they are both forced to marry Rasheed, a man who they do not know and is almost twice their age, to be able to fabricate a living through themselves. Laila and Mariam in the eleventh hour digest to join sides as they tolerate Rasheed’s tender and physical abuse, and the rules presented for the women in afghan.
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Laila at a young age endures hardships the likes of which most women could not imagine while in the midst of constant conflict and instability of the Middle East.. Dealing with the loss of a man she believed to be deceased and his return, submission into a loveless marriage, the birth of a harami or bastard child, and the death of her parents cause her to experience emotional turmoil. Along with her husband’s beatings she is a woman who many are able to see through the eyes of and feel pity and anguish throughout her journey. In a hopeless place where one can only hope, Hosseini takes the reader through what some may consider a living hell for women of the time period. Laila is main protagonist of the story, though she is not known of until the second part of the novel, the reader would display the most empathy for her.
Despite the feeling that asking for money is wrong, Tess leaves for the sake of her family, without knowing that this meeting will seal her dreadful fate. At the d’Urbervilles mansion Tess gets a job as tending fowls. But at the mansion Tess also meets her relative Alec d’Urbervilles. As the months go on, Alec tries to seduce Tess, but one night after a fair, Alec takes advantage of Tess. As Tess does not love Alec, she leaves the mansion to go home.
When her brother fell ill, she decided to look after his house and moved in. Since her own place was empty, she invited a close friend to move in her shack ... Her friend moved into the shack with her then partner who was violent. Mamgo believes this was the primary factor leading to her losing her shack. She recounts the story of how her friend was badly beaten by her partner and she almost lost her life.