Discussion Topic C

In a roller-coaster of emotions, the novel "A thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini illustrates a story of a harami, bastard, unwanted child named Mariam. From the stories exposition Mariam is introduced as the unwanted child by a rich man named Jalil. Mariam's beginning was immediately painted as a shameful conception, but her ending provides the path for the progression of her fellow wife-mate to help Kabul be rebuilt after years of wars and hardships. "Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Miriam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate belongings." Dying as a potential martyr, Mariam allows Laila to exceed her death and spread her healing hands over Kabul, too where her small works would make a big difference in people's daily lives. Mariam's execution was not her death but her new beginning of living in the live's of the younger generations that she allowed Laila to help. Not knowing the true meaning to why Mariam allowed herself to be caught, it isn't until the end of the book that Laila concludes that Mariam didn't die but spread the "thousand splendid suns" all over kabul. "In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory,what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could-a look, a whisper, a moan-to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires,and she couldn't, in the end, save it all." Unable to fully conceive, and absorb Mariam's life and save every moment spent with her..her memory spreads the thought of Mariam into the worlds like "the most unforgiving of fires".