An Interpretation Of A Thousand Splendid Suns From Sartre Existentialism Perspective

Khaled Hosseini was born in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan in 1965 and then moved to America with his father. He was graduated from Medical Department of California University in Santiago, and now he lives in California. His novels aims to " flip over the dust of the ordinary Afghan people and show their real soul to the world ". Up to now, he has already written three novels, The Kite Runner was published in 2003, A Thousand Splendid Suns came out in 2007, And the Mountains Echoed appeared in 2013 which has been sold 40,000,000 all over the world. In 2006, he won the prize of the United Nations Humanitarian Award, and was invited to be an Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees because of great influence of his work. Khaled Hosseini describes the difficulties which Afghan people suffered over the past 50 years in A Thousand Splendid Suns. The individuals have to suffer from hunger and illness; the families have to endure the trauma of wars and the homelessness of the refugees; and the nation has to confront the war that the Soviet Union, Taliban and Americans bring about. It's a novel about Afghanistan history in the past. The novel sets against the war in Afghanistan and describes the hardship Afghan women suffered over the past 30 years with their lost love, dream, hope and the loss of reality.Existentialism is one of the most important schools of philosophy, and Satre is the representative of it. Satre's philosophy viewpoint can be summarized from three points: existence precedes essence, the world is absurd and life is painful and free choice. Satre believes that Existentialism deepens humanitarianism, and the core of Existentialism is on humanity. It focuses on study of humanity and admits that human being is in certain environment. It stresses the value of human being and the responsibility of human. One can see existence and choice of human being exist in A Thousand Splendid Suns.A Thousand Splendid Suns describes the difficulties and sufferings of two Afghan heroines which reflects the pain and hardship of Afghans in the past 30 years. It embodies the choice and struggle of human being under the difficult living conditions. Finally, two heroines conquer obstacles and ordeals and realize their own survival value. By interpreting A Thousand Splendid Suns from the perspective of Existentialism, this paper tries to provide a new viewpoint for other literary works and to make people rethink what we should do about wars.