TEAR #1

        In the mesmerizing novel "A Thousand Splandid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini, the author uses intensity to portray the difficulties of gender relations.
   In the excerpt ""A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated..." Hosseini shows how society cannot fully function if women are not given the same education and rights that men are granted.
   "...And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last." gives the audience an insight of how being a woman can mean so much more and how it is a blessing to be able to call themselves a woman.
   Gender relation difficulties are also seen in domestic abuse where in this case Rasheed, Mariam's husband, states that "a woman's face is her husband's business only" and that not abiding by these beliefs is a "spoiling of their honor and pride"
  The author shows how women can build a bond that men feel threatened by and therefore, not granting them the education needed to success in a country stricken by war. Even to this day, men are accustomed to old fashion ways in where women are inferior to men. They impose strict rules on them, chaining them from further advancement.