Jalil Kana By Nana Dialectical Journal

She grows up as an only daughter and youngest of the family with two older brothers. her older brothers leave for war and soon die so she becomes best friends with Tariq as children which soon escalates into lovers as teenagers. as the war presses on tariq and his family flee to pakistan, but is told Tariq has died, which later she finds out he hasnt died. not long after,Lailas parents die from a rocket which leaves her wounded. nursed back to health by Rasheed and Miriam she decides to marry Rasheed in order to give her unborn child a father since Tariq is presumed dead.

Jalil and Laila procreated another child named Zalmai, but due to the fact that Jalil went broke they had to sent Aziza to an orphanage in order to save more money. One day when Laila returned back home after one of the visits she made to her daughter Aziza, she found out with the surprising news that Tariq was there right in front of her, alive. It happened to be that it was all a plan after Rasheed, when this aggressive man finds out about the news that Tariq was back, Rasheed was so angry that he fighted with Laila, and since Mariam and Laila had built a very close relationship; in order to give protection to the poor Laila, Mariam amazingly kills Rasheed, then she stays to face all guilt and the Taliban tragically executed Mariam. Laila along with her kids moved into Tariq´s home. Jalil inherited Mariam a box that had letters and money which then Laila uses wisely to give a complete transformation to the orphanage located in Kabul.

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini actualizes the power of the human spirit to endure great tragedy and persist to hope and love. Hosseini illuminates the unbreakable human spirit through Mariam, an Afghan woman whose life is marked by emotional and physical abuse. However, Mariam endures her past adversities to eventually attain peace. Hosseini exposes the strength of the human spirit and its unimaginable ambition to achieve happiness.

She, however, learns that her war is not against the innocent child, but in truth against Rasheed; therefore, she spares the unborn child. As her children grow up, Laila ensures to apply lessons she has learned from childhood to raising her own children. First off, she intends to display no favoritism to either child, unlike her mother who worshiped only her sons. Furthermore, she wants both of her children to feel loved; after moving out of Kabul with her children and Tariq, Laila gives her children a loving father who is willing to take care of them just as her father, Hakim, had with her. Finally, most significantly, Laila strives for both of her children to become educated because of her father who had taught her the importance of school.

Laila on the other hand was raised by both parents except her mother did not focus much on her. She therefore had a strong bond with her father than her mother. The two grew up with the knowledge they were brought up with. My essay will focus on the comparison between Mariam’s relationship with her mother and Laila’s relationship with her mother and how these relationships prepare them for adulthood.

(122) Advertised all over her room, were pictures of her heroes, her sons, her everything. What was Laia? Nothing compared to her valiant

Mariam longed to place a ruler on a page and draw important-looking lines”(Hosseini ). Mariam is an example of how women are banned from an education and whose life could have been changed by education. Instead of being educated, she is sheltered by her mother and lives the rest of her life without high expectations of herself. Nana teaches her that an Afghan woman has to endure the life that is chosen for her because she does not have a say. Nana even says "There is only one, only one skill a woman like you and me needs in life, and they don't teach it in school.

Everyone has felt like an outsider sometime in their life whether they like it or not. One time I felt like an outsider when all my friends were talking about how they had such a great time together one weekend, sorrowfully, I couldn’t relate because I wasn’t invited. The Malala article, The Kite Runner novel, and the “To This Day” video clip shows how making someone feel like an outsider has lasting consequences that impacts others through bullying, culture, and gender discrimination. Throughout the sources bullying is used to make others feel like an outsider.

This is Rasheed’s largest role in the story. It is very possible that had Rasheed not been attracted to Laila, and had not made her his wife, Laila’s story could have taken a dramatically different turn. If the author’s description of the risk of Laila not staying with Rasheed

That is how Nanas quote fit the overall plot of the novel and to Mariam character

Jalil is relatively successful, owning a movie theater. Jalil is not ashamed of his wives and their children. He provides them with what seems to be a large comfortable house to live in. After Mariam's mother dies Jalil takes her into his house. He gives her room.

With no one left to help the family, Rasheed decides to give away Aziza to an orphanage, yet again an act of gender biasing. Laila somehow managed to visit her daughter daily, she is relieved that at least her daughter won’t have to stay hungry but is beaten brutally several times by Rasheed for visiting her, still nothing deters her. The story again takes a turn when Tariq returns to Laila, when he visits her house, “she didn’t dare move a muscle. She didn’t dare breathe, or blink even...

Similarly, when Laila was found by Rasheed, he discusses with Mariam about what he was going to do with her and Rasheed abruptly is on the side of fairness now. In this case, Rasheed thinks logical about the horror and fatal tragedies Laila can come across if she was released,such as being “abducted, raped, or tossed into some roadside ditch with her throat

Mariam helps Laila in her pregnancy, and she takes her to the hospital to deliver the baby: “ Mariam positioned herself behind the crown of Laila’s head and and lowered her face so their cheeks touched. She could feel Laila’s teeth rattling. Their hands locked together”(292). This shows how Mariam gives support to Laila through her hard times. Also, Mariam’s presence indicates a true mother figure through her care and advocacy for Laila.

Laila and Mariam find their identity through loving others and feeling love back through horrid situations. Firstly, Mariam finds love in Laila and her children. Mariam states to Laila,“‘Kiss Aziza for me. Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.’” (Hosseini 359).