In the powerful novel A thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini chooses to address both physical and psychological abuse not only in Afghan woman but throughout the whole world. Although highlighting and addressing mostly the abuse passed in their culture. HIs able to do so by the use of diction and imagery throughout the novel.
Miriam as well as Lilia are suppressed by their husbands continual abuse not only physical but psychological. Rashad states that he is a "different breed of man" (70) Which happens to be a man who doesn’t believe in a woman's capability of becoming someone important in the working field or society much less in the world. Rashads temperament first becomes visible after Miriam is unable to bare him a child. After she loses her first child to a miscarriage he suddenly find it difficult to even be around her. When before her questions used to amuse him suddenly they became irritable and annoying to him. He begins to treat her like a nobody. Everyday acquiring more and more rage towards Miriam for being unable to give him a child. "his powerful hand clasped her jaw. He shoved two fingers into her mouth and pried it open...." this image shows how cruel a man can be to their wife hurting her and humiliating her. As known a parson cannot eat pebbles without being physically hurt in the process. Both psychological and physical. The vulnerability of the woman as they cant do anything but take the beating. To man there a woman is like an object, bought and their to do as they wish with them.
Hosseini uses images like the one mention above throughout his hwole novel always demostrating and paiting a vivid picture of the suppression of most afghan women by the men in their lives.
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