By Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a historical fiction novel about a young girl in Afghanistan, named Mariam, and all she wants is to be a part of the life of his father. Her father, Jalil, rejects her and she returns home to discover that her mother has committed suicide (Hosseini 6-7). This novel is about the difficult lives of women during the war, forced marriages, domestic violence and education. The Afghan war against the Soviets disrupts the lives of most families by taking their loved ones off to fight and some do not return (Book Summary). The war continues in Kabul and destroys the city daily and everyone had to flee to Pakistan. In the book, the characters suffer from different things, and then some suffer from the same things. “Behind every trial and every sorrow He makes us endure, God has a reason (Quotation from the book). » This quote was used because the author believed that in situations people have faced in modern times and throughout history during war, God had a reason for everything to happen and that He would take care of us. Hosseini talks a lot about difficult times. what women faced during the war and how they responded to it. The war took its toll on women, as most of them were the mothers and wives of some of the soldiers fighting. Some of the women's family members did not return and felt alone. Some women had to confide in their friends to help them and be with them, not just as friends. In the novel, a young girl named Laila confides in her best friend, Tariq, after learning that her two brothers who went to war had been killed in the war. When the war got worse, Tariq's family had to move to Pakistan and Laila didn't want him to leave, so they made love for the first time. Tariq leaves a...... middle of paper ....... Jalil takes the initiative to chase Nana out of his house when she had become pregnant with his illegitimate child. He breaks his promise he made to Mariam for her birthday and forgets her. He even marries her to a stranger after her mother commits suicide because his other wives and children didn't love Mariam and didn't want her in their lives. For Rasheed, he notes that he should marry Laila because he couldn't let her and his unborn child live with him without any pretext because people would gossip about him and his new girlfriend. He spends way more than his family's budget to make it look like he's a rich man. I both behave very selfishly and, ironically, am ethically shameful. They neglect or even sometimes mistreat their offspring or their wives and sacrifice their well-being to be able to save their name and face..