On this page, I'll discuss the rhetorical devices used in A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Symbolism: In Khaled Hosseini's book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" there are many uses of rhetorical devices. One such example is found when Laila visits her daughter Aziza at the orphanage and Laila notices a stutter that she has acquired since she has been at the orphanage. She thinks of what Aziza had said earlier about earthquakes and how deep fractures beneath the surface come out as only slight tremors and how this so similarly represents her daughter as her trauma's at the orphanage and at home with Rasheed deeply affect who she is including now the stammer where she struggles to carry the burden placed on her and her words now tremble as a result. This symbol of the earth quaking also says something about afghanistan as whole as the rockets that explode on the earth create tremors. It is really massive fractures among the people and theirbeliefs that create rockets that are considered daily occurrence shaking the people further through the earth they stand on.
Allusion: Babi played a very intellectual role in the book and as he and Laila packed up there lives to leave Afghanistan he recalls a line from a poem that said "one could not count the moons that shimmer her roofs/ or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls" (Hosseini 172). This image Babi gives to Laila before they reluctantly leave Kabul alludes to the fact that they themselves have waited so long to leave because of the relentless hope that they carried shown by the thousand splendid suns that lay in wait behind walls and the many moons that light up Kabul. This also alludes to Mammy's constant pull towards her sons legacies. She truly believes that those suns and moons are just around the corner and if she just waits for it then it will come and all would be right with Kabul, Afghanistan and her family. It is as if the sun has eclipsed in Mammy's life and she thinks that just a moment longer the sun will shine again.
Metaphor: Hosseini was able to carry many metaphors of women's struggle in Afghanistan some of which were even recognized by the female characters to fully embody there unheard and mostly unwanted thoughts. As Miriam was going through the loss of another miscarriage she thinks to herself of something that her mother said to her. "She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was sigh heaved by aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below." (Hosseini 82). In this quotation Miriam was able to truly understand her mothers anguish as a women in a world that does not hear there cries but only sees them like a trader sees chattel. It also shows that the sighs of women were great because they can gather in such large quantities to be able to fall from the sky and covers the city. It quickly becomes omnipresent laying quietly and it is only upon close examination that you see snowflakes individuality and beauty but as the tradition of life follows the snow quickly melts and even the reminder of it just becomes a puddle in the street.
On this page, I'll discuss the rhetorical devices used in A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Symbolism: In Khaled Hosseini's book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" there are many uses of rhetorical devices. One such example is found when Laila visits her daughter Aziza at the orphanage and Laila notices a stutter that she has acquired since she has been at the orphanage. She thinks of what Aziza had said earlier about earthquakes and how deep fractures beneath the surface come out as only slight tremors and how this so similarly represents her daughter as her trauma's at the orphanage and at home with Rasheed deeply affect who she is including now the stammer where she struggles to carry the burden placed on her and her words now tremble as a result. This symbol of the earth quaking also says something about afghanistan as whole as the rockets that explode on the earth create tremors. It is really massive fractures among the people and theirbeliefs that create rockets that are considered daily occurrence shaking the people further through the earth they stand on.
Allusion: Babi played a very intellectual role in the book and as he and Laila packed up there lives to leave Afghanistan he recalls a line from a poem that said "one could not count the moons that shimmer her roofs/ or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls" (Hosseini 172). This image Babi gives to Laila before they reluctantly leave Kabul alludes to the fact that they themselves have waited so long to leave because of the relentless hope that they carried shown by the thousand splendid suns that lay in wait behind walls and the many moons that light up Kabul. This also alludes to Mammy's constant pull towards her sons legacies. She truly believes that those suns and moons are just around the corner and if she just waits for it then it will come and all would be right with Kabul, Afghanistan and her family. It is as if the sun has eclipsed in Mammy's life and she thinks that just a moment longer the sun will shine again.
Metaphor: Hosseini was able to carry many metaphors of women's struggle in Afghanistan some of which were even recognized by the female characters to fully embody there unheard and mostly unwanted thoughts. As Miriam was going through the loss of another miscarriage she thinks to herself of something that her mother said to her. "She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was sigh heaved by aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below." (Hosseini 82). In this quotation Miriam was able to truly understand her mothers anguish as a women in a world that does not hear there cries but only sees them like a trader sees chattel. It also shows that the sighs of women were great because they can gather in such large quantities to be able to fall from the sky and covers the city. It quickly becomes omnipresent laying quietly and it is only upon close examination that you see snowflakes individuality and beauty but as the tradition of life follows the snow quickly melts and even the reminder of it just becomes a puddle in the street.