As I read both the book and articles about my subject I came to one conclusion; when Hosseini wrote the novel, his intentions were definitely not only to show how hard life was for the afghan people, but specifically, afghan women. While I was researching I understood that Afghanistan as a whole has had a very hard past in general. The government’s that they have had were unsupportive and mainly oppressive of the people in the country. Despite that, the women have always had the hardest time living in Afghanistan. This is true simply because most of the leaders in the country have been strict and Muslim. The author of the book tries to communicate this idea by putting the