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A thousand splendid suns: Characters

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  • Mariam Khan
  • PHYSICAL TRAITS:Dark hair and skin, has a long face and wears a burqa.CHARACTER TRAITS: She is insecure about her face, due to Nana constantly berating her about looking ugly during childhood.She was a quiet, thoughtful child. She was abused by Rasheed as she couldn't sire children, which made her cold and bitter. Dispite this, she finally was able to love another person, as she cared Aziza, Laila's daughter. Because of Laila and her children, Mariam finally was able to be a mother-figure and give and feel love, things she had wished for.
  • Laila
  • PHYSICAL TRAITS:Has green eyes, blonde hair and high cheekbonesCHARACTER TRAITS: Laila had an education in her childhood, unlike Mariam. Due to her brothers being sent off to war, she became mature for her age, as she looked after her mother after the brothers' deaths. She desires to use her intellect and knowledge to improve the world. She loves Tariq, but is forced to marry Rasheed after her parent's deaths.She cares only for her children , Tariq and Mariam.
  • Rasheed
  • PHYSICAL TRAITS: Old, balding and has a large beard.CHARACTER TRAITS:He is conservative and willful, as he wants to have a wife that meets his expections. He is quite abusive to Mariam and Laila, as well as Aziza, but cares deeply for Zalmai, his son, whom he wanted so he could fill the hole in his life when his first son had died many years ago.
  • Quotes: “And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.” “Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”
  • Jalil Khan
  • PHYSICAL TRAITS: Old, expensive clothing and has a moustache.CHARACTER TRAITS:Dispite Mariam being an illegitimate child, he still cares for her in his own way, as he gives her and Nana food and spends time with her. He is forced by his 9 wives to send Mariam to marriage after Nana's suicide.He owns many cinemas and is rich because of it.
  • Quotes: “Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.” “She would never leave her mark on Mammy’s heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy’s heart was like a pallid beach where Laila’s footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”
  • Tariq
  • PHYSICAL TRAITS:he is pale, tall and thin, has hazel eyes, and has CHARACTER TRAITS:He can be mischievous and goofy, and is eager to prove his strength in a fight.He is unfailingly loyal to Laila and loves her, as he returns to her after many years in exile and imprisoned in Pakistan.He cares for both of Laila's children.
  • Quotes: “But I’m a different breed of man, Mariam. Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman’s face is her husband’s business only. I want you to remember that. Do you understand?”You try this again and I will find you. […] And, when I do, there isn't a court in this godforsaken country that will hold me accountable for what I will do.
  • Nana
  • PHYSICAL TRAITS:Dark hair and skin, old, and is ill due to demons(which are implied to be seizures).CHARACTER TRAITS:Nana is a resentful and angry woman. She was disowned by Jalil's family and from working as their maid, and was exiled to the Kolba. She had to deal with her daughter Mariam, whom she blames her ruinned life for, and look after her by herself and with a few people in the community.When Mariam runs away to go to see Jalil, Nana feels ashamed of herself as she feels like she has failed as a mother, and hangs herself atop a tree outside the house.
  • Quotes: “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
  • Quotes: “Nine-year-old Laila rose from bed, as she did most mornings, hungry for the sight of her friend Tariq. This morning, however, she knew there would be no Tariq sighting. Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq’s father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq’s absence or presence.”
  • Quotes: “Nana said, ‘Learn this now and learn it well my daughter: like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam
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