Topic B, J.Davison, Period 7

Khaled Hosseini, in his sardonic novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns", uses the events of the past to convey the tenacity of the women. Laila, every since she was two years old was forced to deal with her mothers neglect, and was made to feel that "her future was no match for her brothers' past." This alone should have shattered a young girl that the person she was supposed to look up to was looking over her. Years later Laila would suffer the loss of both her parents when a bomb "hot and powerful slammed into her" and more directly the house where her parents were. The girl became instantly orphaned in a matter of seconds leaving her alone and helpless against the world and the sneaky advances of Rasheed. Still the girl managed to stride ahead and do what she had to do in order to survive. Even if survival meant marrying the falsely attentive Rasheed. Laila would truly have to learn to survive when her first born is a girl, and the beatings begin and steadily increased in severity.Through all of this she managed to find love and compassion to give her children and keep going. In the end Laila's obstinacy was what kept her alive and helped paint the picture of what the strength of a woman really was.