Dis discussion number B

In "A Thousand Splendid Suns," author  Khaled Hosseini addresses the issues of gender relation in his home country of Afghanistan. He expresses the grievances of what it means to be a woman through every female character. This exemplifies the notion that no woman is free from the shackles of the men. Every aspect of a woman's life is controlled by another man. Even women whom have no male companion are readily judged and prosecuted. Hosseini uses a simile to convey the ease of which women are abased and belittled in Afghanistan. "Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always." The magnetic force at which the north pole pulls relentlessly on the small needle pales in comparison of the emotional force and weight the common Afghani women is afflicted daily by their fellow man. Hosseini instills in his audience "women have always had it hard in this country," a sad fact and a foreign concept to his western readers.