How is the novel, A Thousand Spledid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, a feminist novel?i need four points to proove it...i have 2: i.) before...

Hello!

A Thousand Splendid
Suns can be examined as a feminist novel not in that it actively speaks out against the
subjugation of women in Afghanistan, but in that it describes the horrors inflicted on
women through the two main characters, thus inciting a feminist reaction from the
reader.

For your essay, here are some points found within
the pages of the novel to prove your thesis:

1. Education,
or lack there of for women, could be used as one point. You can use many instances in
the novel where this shows up to prove that point.

2. Women
are forbidden to leave their homes unless accompanied by a male relative. When the main
characters of this novel leave their home together and are sent back, they are beaten
and threatened with worse punishment if they do it
again.

3. Women are forbidden to show their faces. They are
required to wear a burqa in public at all times. They are not even allowed to laugh in
public. The punishment for breaking these rules is also
beatings.

4. The most important point you can make and
should save for last is the fact that in Afghanistan, women's rights under the law are
non-existant. A man has the right to punish the women of his household how he sees fit
without any interference from the law. The perfect example of this in the novel is when
Laila speaks to an officer about returning home, and asks if he will protect her from
her husband:

He responds: "As a matter of policy, we do not
interfere with private family matters,
hamshira."

"Of course you don't. When it benefits
the man. And isn't this a 'private family matter,' as you say? Isn't
it?"

Hope this helps!