Outside reading post 2

Another one of the main characters in the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a man named Rasheed. Rasheed is the man Jalil forces Mariam to marry after her mother's death, at the age of fifteen. He is a forty year old shoemaker who lives in the city of Kabul. Like Mariam, He has alsp suffered loss, Rasheed once lived happily with a wife and son.
Now, long after his son's death, rasheed longs for another, which Mariam can give him. At the beginnig of thier marriage, Rasheed is very nice and sympathetic. He complimetns her on her cooking, "It's good, maybe even better than good". He also offers to show her around the unfamiliar city. He does this all out of hope that one day Mariam will give him a son.
Soon the moment came where Mariam was expecting a child. Tjis made Rasheed overjoyed, he started right away on building a crib, and invited all of his friends over to celebrate, he even bought a baby-sized leather coat. Just as soon as the excitment came, it was lost, when Mariam found out she had what is now called a miscarage. Throughout the next four years of their mariage there would be 6 more miscarages, and lost hope.
These miscarages dashed rasheeds dream, and so he had no use for Mariam now that she couldn't give him another child. He slowly became more snippy and mean. He soon would ignore Mariam, and disaprove of everything she did. "His ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat...she lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperments". He would soon result in puches, kick and slaps when Mariam disobeyed, or her cooking wasn't good enough. He even made her eat rocks, cracking her teeth.
One almost feels pain and sympathy for Rasheed even though he is mistreating Mariam, but after all he has gone through, to see his dreams dashed makes you feel sorry for him.