At the beginning of the novel, we read about Mariam’s deep admiration of her father, Jalil. How does Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, use character development in the above passage to show how Mariam changes in Part One of the novel?

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

At the beginning of the novel, we read about Mariam’s deep admiration of her father, Jalil. How does Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, use character development in the above passage to show how Mariam changes in Part One of the novel?

She climbed the stairs, and though she could spot Jalil out of the corner of her eye walking parallel to her she did not look out the window. She made her way down the aisle to the back, where Rasheed sat with her suitcase between his feet. She did not turn to look when Jalil’s palms pressed on the glass, when his knuckles rapped and rapped on it. When the bus jerked forward, she did not turn to see him trotting alongside it. And when the bus pulled away, she did not look back to see him receding, to see him disappear in the cloud of exhaust and dust (Housseini 55-56).

Asked by Jose P #1057529 on 10/15/2020 3:34 PM

Last updated by Aslan on 10/15/2020 7:42 PM

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Answered by Aslan on 10/15/2020 7:42 PM

Mariam cuts ties with her father after he is ashamed of her. She gets on a bus with her new husband Rasheed, to whom she was pressured into marrying by her stepmothers. This is a moment of Mariam shedding her youthful innocence and adoration of her father and accepting a dark future with Rashad.

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