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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Introduction

The book which has been chosen for the topic to use the psychological approach on is one of the masterpieces I have ever read. The book is entitled as A Thousand Splendid Suns written in the year 2007 by Khaled Hosseini, who has his maternal family in Afghanistan and has a deep inside physiological effect on him too as his roots belongs to Afghanistan and the Taliban and terrorism has led him to write about the book and put light upon it. He has his famous bestselling also and gained his name after the successful 2003 sell of his book The Kite Runner. In United States, it had been listen in the best publications from the Weekly, Booklist and Library Journals and in the second place on the Amazon.com bestseller.

The lines, which have had a great impact on me after reading the book, are:

Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls

- Hosseini, 2007.

The book has psychological impact on the girl who has faced so many difficulties in her life that if it had been a girl without a brave heart, then she could have committed suicide as soon as she found herself to choose a life to live with an elderly man who had already been married to a girl, who has her own lamentable and miserable story, which we will be discussing in the discussion portion. The psychological impact on wearing the veil or burqa is already much debated in the western and European societies.

Discussions

Mariam daughter of Jalil, who was a businessman from Heart and had three women as his spouse and nine legitimate children, including Mariam, who was a result of illicit love affair with Nana, one of her maids. Nana and Mariam live apart from Jalil's family in a village near Herat and receive a weekly visit from Jalil. Mariam lived there until age 15, accompanied by the suffering of his mother, who warns her numerous times the wretched future that waits. At fifteen, she is forced to marry Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul surly that has become a widower, thirty years her senior. At first, Rashid leaves you time to get used, but quickly makes it clear he has to exercise its role as wife and have to begin doing the cooking and housework.

The previous marriage of Rashid gave him a child named, Rashid who died in a tragic drowning accident, hence, he is excited about the idea of having another child. Although, Mariam soon became pregnant, suffers a natural abortion and its relationship with Rashid gives a drastic turn, he ceases to be friendly with her, physically and psychologically abused and violated for many years where Mariam suffers successive abortions. This results a psychological problem in her and she was so afraid of her own ...