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The Kite Runner Women Quotes

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Khaled Hosseini speaks about that he wanted to show the relationship between two women that are fighting different battles yet are also fighting a battle with their volatile husband. The author wanted to include the lives of these women spirituals and physically in the Afghan society. One theme that ran through the play is an oppression women face in a country that is at war. The women don’t have a say in politics and can’t make political decisions. This also shows the power that man once again has over women. They don’t want women in government or giving them an education because they want man to always be in power and they don’t want to lose that status to women. The author says that “to my knowledge everything I wrote was based on something …show more content…

Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila…. I know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.” This quote represents Laila because she was an educated and bright child. This quote conveys Laila message throughout the novel by bringing up that women should stay strong and independent. She lost her parents in a bombing at age 15 where she ended being the second wife of Rasheed even though she was in loved with a childhood friend named Tariq. She symbolized the positive side of Afghanistan with her supported family, the value of women, and education. Laila and Mariam are foils to each other because Married to Rasheed, Forced into living with Rasheed and Both mothers are distant from their lives. They both find each other humanity when Laila has a baby girl that they bond over because of the innocence of the kid and they both had felt a connection to god when with the baby. Their Survive was to help each other soul to get rid of the evil which is

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