AFM101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Khaled Hosseini, Burqa

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM101
• Professor: Tobin Shields

Document Summary

The novel a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini reflects the true state of women in the patriarchal society where a lack of lack of freedom of choice leads to their mental and physical degradation and perseverance. This is outlined by the author when he highlights the violence on women and their courage and struggles to survive. The two characters mariam and laila are the main victims and heroes who in this offensive reach a point of emotional collapse and survive against all odds. Body paragraph #1: freedom to go outside (physical isolation) Mariam is isolated physically from society by rasheed. Laila being isolated physically from society by rasheed. The lack of freedom of choice for women in afghanistan leads to women being physically isolated by the men in society. Mariam is not given the freedom to go outside when being rasheed"s wife. This is seen when rasheed forces her to wear the burqa to cover herself up in public.