A Thousand Splendid Suns Mariam Death

They re married and mariam heads to her new home in kabul.

A thousand splendid suns mariam death. Mariam s shame at being illegitimate makes her unable to stand up for herself. Her mother has committed suicide. Mariam moves in with jalil. While mariam is ready to die she s not ready to lose laila.

When she saw rashid throttling laila mercilessly she took a shovel and smacked it on his face which in my view was a defiant move apparently done only to save laila s life. And she does killing rasheed and selflessly taking the rap for the crime so laila can live on. Mariam is taken back to the kolba betrayed and ashamed. Hosseini s description of mariam s offers insight into mariam s evolution.

Moreover later she takes all the blame on herself. When her mother commits suicide after mariam runs away at age 15 mariam is plagued by guilt that controls her for much of her life which contributes to her tolerance at being married to the abusive rasheed. For years she had to put up with a misogynist husband and act according to his whims. It is paradoxical how a murder can be an honorable deed but mariam tries to save four lives with this murder.

A mother a friend and a hero. But when she sees laila being strangled to death she finally understands the need to fight back. Mariam is able to become what she thought a harami like her could never be. Mariam returns home the next day only to make a terrible discovery.

Mariam realizes after her first swing at rasheed that if she does not kill him he will kill them both. Mariam s execution in a thousand splendid suns was harrowing and unjustified. After feeling unwanted by and unimportant to jalil she is also shunned by her husband when she is unable to bear him a child. Death penalty is verdict for mariam which this honorable woman meets bravely.

It s not long before jalil and his wives arrange a marriage between mariam and a shoemaker named rasheed. The opening of the novel sets the foundation for the book s more macrocosmic themes. While walking back to the kolba the chauffeur tries to hide mariam s eyes but mariam is able to see that nana has hanged herself. Throughout her life mariam is plagued by the shame of being a harami or bastard illegitimate child in addition to the greater shame of believing she contributed to her mother s suicide.

Mariam understands that the only way out for them is to kill rasheed and restore the justice for her family. Mariam becomes pregnant but she miscarries the baby. Through her decision to kill rasheed mariam values her role as a mother above all else.