In the novel a thousand splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini showed through the life of Mariam how a person past events can negatively affect ones actions, attitudes or values as a whole. In the beginning of the Novel Hosseini gave a scene of Mariam and her mother Nana as Mariam got ready for Jalils, her father. The novel started with the dialog of Nana in response to Jalils visits calling Mariam a harami, or a bastard, because of the illuson that Mariam has a father when in reality she doesn't.Offsetting the negative affect of Mariam life after she realized that she was a product of an illegitimate relationship which was tragically followed by a legitimate marrige to Rasheed and a further banishment from freedom as well as her realtionship with her father.What is implyed as legitimate in the customs set in the story means to be striped of your freedom. “the padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull, and it was strange seeing the world through a mesh screen…she did notlikethesuffocatingway the
pleated cloth kept pressing against her mouth.” This qoute shows how Rasheed demanded that Mariam face to be covered so that no man but himself should lay eyes on her. Hosseini used this quote show how Mariam past with her father as he didn't want to be seen with her as due to his illegitimate relation with her mother relates to her legitimate relationship with Rasheed and his demand to keep her hidden from the outside world as well. Also adding to the Afghani culture as to how women are just a scapegoat to be used and forced into whatever the men say.
Showing how ones past as well as another past will always repeat itself just as Nana past and burden of givin an illegitmate birth and living as a cast away contributes to Mariam burden as a wife in a abusive relationship given rise to such sorrow and eventualy death.
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