In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns the author Khaled Hosseini describes Miriams past life as a burden for her to find her true self in her present life both as a wife and as a woman. Describing and revealing the events and reasons in Miriams past life that take her in the path of becoming the person she ends up to be.
Hosseini first takes the reader through Miriams life as a young girl. Her growing up without her father and Nana's, Miriam's mother, constant accusations towards Jalil, her father. Nana helps Miriam grow up with the thought that her father doesn't really love her life Miriam believes he does stating that even before she was born "To Jalil and his wives, i was a pokeroot. Amugwort. You too" (pg 8) As Miriam grew up she went through events that lead her to believe that Nana had always been right about Jalil's accusations. Beginning from her looking for her father after he stood up for her 15th birthday leading up to Nana's death and her father getting "rid of her" by finding her a suitor. Stating that her being 15th was a "good solid marrying age for a girl" (pg47). Although Jalil's other daughters were close to her age but instead of thinking of finding her a suitor they were making plans to sending her to school and a university. As Miriam's life continues she begins to truly believe that she is nothing to her father or her husband she still blames her self for Nanas death and her being unable to bare Rashad, her husband, a child after so many miscarriages she finds her self as a faliure as a wife and as a woman.
Hosseini is able to portray how someones past can impact your future in many ways. That certain events can lead a person to belive to be worthless and shameful to their own selfs even others.
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