Who are Laila's parents?

Character List and Analysis Laila. Laila, the second female protagonist, is the youngest child and only daughter of Hakim and Fariba.

Who is Laila's father?

Laila's father, Hakim is bookish and sensitive and does his best to give Laila an education, stressing to her that women should have every opportunity that men have.

Is Babi Laila's dad?

Laila's father, and a high school teacher in Kabul before being fired by the communists.

Who is Laila's brothers?

Laila has never known her brothers, Ahmad and Noor.

Are Laila and Tariq related?

Tariq is a boy growing up near Laila in Kabul. He loses his leg to a landmine when he's very young and, through the support of his kind parents, never lets this disability slow him down. He and Laila are best friends as children and become lovers as teenagers.

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What happened to Laila's parents?

At age 15, Laila falls in love with her best friend since childhood, Tariq, but war forces Tariq and his parents to flee to Pakistan. Days later, a rocket kills Laila's parents and wounds her, and Rasheed and Mariam nurse her back to health.

How old was Laila when she married Rasheed?

When she is fifteen, Mariam, forced into marriage with forty-year old Rasheed, moves to Kabul to start a life with her husband. Hopeful at first, she is unable to conceive, and lives a loveless existence with a husband who abuses her regularly.

What is wrong with Laila's mother in A Thousand Splendid Suns?

Laila's mother has fallen into manic depression over the loss of her sons to the war. She does not get out of bed every day. Good days are very rare for her. Laila's friend, Tariq, lost one leg to a land mine explosion when he was five.

What is Laila's relationship like with her mother?

Laila, like Mariam, is definitely influenced by her mother's behavior. For instance, at times both girls resent their mothers, but at other times they are empathetic, even loving, toward their mothers.

Who is Jalil?

Mariam's father, a successful cinema owner in Herat, who has three wives and nine legitimate children in addition to Mariam. Jalil comes to see Mariam every week when she is a child, but he never allows her to visit him in Herat or join the rest of his family there.

Why does Laila's father stay with his wife?

Why does lailas father stay with his wife? How are the mothers and fathers dreams different and why? The mother wants to stay in Afghanistan where her sons were killed but the father wants to move. He doesn't leave enter because he loves her and his family with her.

How are Laila and Mariam connected?

Mariam is an illegitimate child who faces a broken childhood and grows up to be given to a man named Rasheed for marriage. Laila is a child who lives across the street from Mariam and Rasheed. After a tragedy, Laila is taken in by Mariam and Rasheed as Rasheed's second wife.

Where are Laila's brothers?

A stranger asks to speak to Laila's parents and her father tells her to go upstairs. Fariba joins Hakim and Laila spies on their conversation with the stranger; it quickly becomes clear that he brings news that Laila's brothers, Noor and Ahmed, have died.

Who is Aziza's father in A Thousand Splendid Suns?

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Eventually, Laila tells Aziza that Tariq is her biological father and Aziza is relieved and overjoyed that this kind, loving man — with whom she already feels a connection — is her real father. Zalmai adjusts more slowly.

Who are Fariba and Hakim?

Fariba Fariba is a woman who lives in Kabul and tries to befriend Mariam. Her husband is Hakim, and she has three children, Ahmad, Noor, and Laila. After Ahmad and Noor leave to fight in the jihad, Fariba stays in her bed grieving.

Is Mariam Laila's mom?

Jalil and Nana are Mariam's only family, and their relationship is anything but healthy. Mariam finds the family that she never thought she'd have in Laila and Aziza. Mariam becomes a mother figure to Laila—she even frequently identifies herself as Laila's mother to other people.

How is Mariam a mother to Laila?

This helps her understand her own mother better, and Mariam's life changes with the arrival of Laila, Rasheed's second wife. Through her love for Laila and Laila's children, Mariam is able to fulfill her wish to be a mother and to finally give and receive love.

Why does Laila not leave with Tariq?

First, Tariq decides to leave with his family in order to safeguard his father's failing health. Next, Laila decides to remain with her family, despite her strong desire to marry and follow Tariq.

What is the main message of Thousand Splendid Suns?

The primary theme in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is the rights of women, especially under the Taliban. Mariam and Laila grow up during regimes that are not oppressive. Although Mariam's father's family pushes her into marriage with Rasheed, it is ultimately her choice to agree to marry him.

Why did Laila cut her finger?

Laila feels incredibly guilty for her choices and cannot look Mariam in the face during the wedding ceremony. That night, after she and Rasheed have intercourse, she grabs the knife she's hidden under the mattress and pricks her finger to sully the sheets, just to perpetuate Rasheed's belief that he married a virgin.

Why was Aziza sent to the orphanage?

Laila is more distraught by the fact that she's forced to put Aziza in an orphanage because Rasheed is unable to earn enough to feed all of them.

What was the name of Laila's second child?

The next day they return with a new baby girl. Rasheed's displeasure is immediately evident: He refuses to help Laila with the baby, and frequently voices his displeasure about the child. Laila names her daughter Aziza, which means the Cherished One.

What happened to Rasheed's first wife?

Character List and Analysis Rasheed. Rasheed is a widowed shoemaker whose first wife and son died many years before his marriage to 15-year-old Mariam. Conservative and willful, Rasheed quickly instructs Mariam on what he believes an ideal wife should be: subservient, obedient, and fertile.

Is there a movie on A Thousand Splendid Suns?

A Thousand Splendid Suns was previously adapted into a 2017 stage play that premiered in San Francisco. The Kite Runner was also adapted into a play that premiered in 2009, and into a 2007 movie directed by Marc Forster and starring Khalid Abdalla and Zekeria Ebrahimi.