My Reflection of the book : A Thousand Splendid Suns'
I once read something along the lines of: “Life is never fair. It was never meant to be fair. If you expect your good deeds to be rewarded and others’ wrongdoings to be punished, you are a fool. Life favours the audacious.” I was reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini at the time, and I believe that thought became the lens through which I understood the story. Sometimes, the ideas and moments that appear before you at a particular point in life feel like notes on the same thread, quietly connecting themselves to one another. A friend of mine, with whom I was discussing the novel, believed that Laila had everything, while the writer seemed almost cruel to Mariam. My response was this: Laila possessed audacity. She was daring enough to demand what she deserved and to fight for it, whereas Mariam accepted whatever life threw at her. Part of the reason, perhaps, lies in their upbringing. Mariam had nothing hopeful to look up to. The only other man in her life before Rashe...