Question

To anyone who has read A Thousand Splendid Suns, please help revise my introduction paragraph of my essay! The main point that I have to answer in my essay is "How does the author employ the theme of shelter in the story?"

Answer 1

Look outside your window right now and what do you see? What about at almost any given place, even in Antarctica? The answer is not obvious, but it is shelter. From houses and buildings to tents which means surviving in Antarctica. Caves, forts, shacks, cars; just about anywhere you can lay your foot on for protection will be shelter. Not only that these places are shelter, but people around you are shelters too. Your parents, your dog, or just anyone in the world are capable of protecting you. These factors give you safety and are essential in our lives. However, it can be difficult to find shelter sometimes, especially during war or in specific countries, and that can be catastrophic. Just like in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila were doing everything to survive. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini employs the theme of shelter as Rasheed’s house, the newborn Aziza, and the movie Titanic as a hope for the characters’ motivation to fight the war and their hardships.