The ideas of guilt/regret/forgiveness play an enormous role in the novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. The author implements this theme into this story in a manner that makes provokes many varieties of imagery and produces a heat-rendering connection with its readers. Guilt, regret and forgiveness change the dynamic of the characters that opens new avenues of possibilities as well as experiences. This emotion is especially visible in times of depression, seen more often through characters that have faced an immense number of hardships such as Lalia and Mariam.
Mariam near the end of her life, had faced an immense amount of reminiscing on the past and having to analyze her situation and was was left to make of it. To illustrate, Mariam st one point reflects back on the day Jalil, her father, had spent his day parked in front of Mariams’ house in Herat next to her Mercedes-Benz. During this event in time, Mariam had been slipped a letter by her father that she, infuriated at the time being for his action of sending her away to a suiter, ripped apart to shreds and now is never able to…show more content… Directly before embarking on her Journey to visit Kabul and see for the first time where Jaili lives and meet his other wives as well as children, Nana utters a threat claiming that she would be dead by the time Mariam comes back and would never hear from her again. Mariam, in spite of this, still continues on her journey to Jalil's residences, completely dismissing Nana’s talk with her and under the assumption that these are all false statements due to her past history in overdramatizing events. Mariam feels guilty as if she is to blame for the death of Nana, and this belief in her consciences only beings to diminish when she discusses that situation with Mullah Fazlullah who explains to her how she must learn to
