A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

BY: Khaled Hosseini

(Afghanistan)

Summary of the story:

Mariam is an innocent woman that never worn a burqa then Rasheed is a man help I to worn that burqa .Then Rasheed brought him to go into the bus placed that they called Shar-e Nau Park where the children are playing swings and slapped volleyballs .They went to small Kebab house near the mosque they called it Haji Yaghoub. The floor was so sticky and air smoky. When the two went to the city of Afghanistan its Kabul they saw women wear miniskirts, their nail polish is dark then they didn’t wear a burqa. Those girls their husbands are oden Afghan men. At last Mariam know to her that there was so many things that she haven’t know yet.

Background of the author:

Hosseini disclosed that in some ways, A Thousand Splendid Suns was more difficult to write than his first novel, The Kite Runner. This is partly because when he penned The Kite Runner, "no one was waiting for it."He also found his second novel to be more "ambitious" than the first due to its larger number of characters, its dual focus on Mariam and Laila, and it’s covering of a multi-generational-period of nearly forty-five-years. However, he stated, "As I began to write, as the story picked up pace and I found myself immersed in the world of Mariam and Laila, these apprehensions vanished on their own. The developing story captured me and enabled me to tune out the background noise and get on with the business of inhabiting the world I was creating." The characters "took on a life of their own" at this point and "became very real for [him]".

Similar to The Kite Runner, the manuscript had to be extensively revised; Hosseini divulged that he ultimately wrote the book five times before it was complete. The novel's anticipated release was first announced in October 2006, when it was described as a story about "family, friendship, faith and the salvation to be found in love".

Appreciation of the story:

As a Filipino I have many things that I haven’t know yet. I don’t know the different kinds of dresses that other tribe’s worn and what are the effects of the modernize style of dresses in the world of fashion then the effects of this to the elders. The effects of the cultural change to the social change is really a big impact in our society for instances those women is wearing a skirts the effect of this to the cultural change just nothing but when an individual’s engages those changes it is really big impact to the culture of an individual .The effect of the technology in an individual is so big the way people dressing up there selves.

As a only boy in our family my father decided to give me in my grandmother in Iponan,Cagayan de Oro City . I’m a working student in 1 year so came from the land of Wao that has a really big difference in Cagayan de Oro because the way people talk, dressing up and the way they work. For me the impact of the modernize society has a big impact to me as a person because from old kind of person into the fast worker kid of a student and at first time I questioned myself why am I here so I committed to myself that their so many things that I haven’t know yet. Then as time goes by me engages the way the people I’ve in Cagayan and I’m not an ignorant for so many things because I can work with them.