How Does A Thousand Splendid Suns Life Change

Life, Changed in a Flash It is not an unusual circumstance when an incident in a novel causes an immediate change in the life of the protagonists. In certain cases their live’s will be altered limitedly and in others a complete transformation. Khaled Hosseini’s, author of the fictional novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns critically implies how a devastating event changed the way one of the main character’s went through life for the worse. The second protagonist introduced to the novel is Laila, a young girl living in Afghanistan during the time of different powers warring for control. Laila’s adolescent life was lived peacefully and happily with her family and with passion from her best friend Tariq. On one occasion in the novel Laila was being bullied by another child and Tariq decided the correct way to prevent that was to beat the bully with his artificial leg, “...charging him, his unstrapped leg raised high over his shoulder

Unfortunately her family only attempted to leave when, “...a giant roar. Behind her, a flash of white...Something hot and powerful slammed into her from behind”(Khaled Hosseini). A rocket struck Laila’s house killing both of her parents which we inside and severely wounding her. As Laila fades out of consciousness she see’s the figures of her neighbors, Mariam and Rasheed, coming to her assistance. She later figures out how her parents were no longer living, and ultimately feels alone because Tariq is gone as well. Viewing her current circumstance she sees no other positive choice for herself except marrying Rasheed and becoming his second wife alongside Mariam, “ ‘He wants an answer by his morning,’...‘He can have it now,...My answer is yes’ ”(Khaled Hosseini). With the situation that Laila was in and the way that her society did not approve of women living singly, marrying Rasheed was honestly the only choice she could