because they were afraid of execution. The condition that Laila faced was felt by other women too. Most of the women were suffered since Taliban stated
the law.
6. Sadness
One of the sadness that women felt was the destruction of something memorial to them. Khaled Hosseini wrote about the destruction of Buddha’s
statue which made Laila sad. Laila had learned that the Taliban had planted TNT in the crevices of the
hiant Buddhas in Bamiyan and blown them apart, calling them objects of idoltry and sin. Taliban detonated their explosives inside the two-
thousand-year-old Buddhas. They had chanted Allah-u-akbar with each blast 306.
Taliban destroyed the statue in March 2001. When Laila heard the news of the destruction of the statue, she felt very sad. She remembered in 1987, she
was standing on top of the Buddhas with her father and Tariq. She also remembered when her father brought her to the trip. The feeling of sadness
that Laila felt, it could be seen from the description when she wanted to breathe but she felt lack of air in her lungs. The condition also felt by other
women but maybe in different cases. In this case, Laila had a great memory in the statue with her lovely father and her lover Tariq. Khaled Hossein
described the sadness of Laila, Laila sat on the foor in a corner of the living room, not speaking and stone-
faced, her hair hanging round her face in straggly curls. No matter how much she breathed in and out, it seemed to Laila that she couldn’t feel her
lungs with enough air 306.
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7. Injustice
During the Taliban regime, most civilian were suffered. There were many killed people. Ironically, women were suffered the most throughout the years
in Afghanistan. There was no justice for women. Taliban would believe to what man said rather than woman. The punishment was in the form of stoning
or killing. Rasheed emphasized that Taliban would believe to his words rather than hers. Taliban also would give a bad punishment to her. It could be seen
from the conversation between Rasheed and Laila. Rasheed said “I could go to the Taliban one day, just walk in and say that I have my suspicions about
you. That’s all it would take. Whose word do you think they would believe? What do you think they’d do to you?” 275.
There was also injustice in Mariam’s trial. Mariam got into prison because she killed Rasheed. She admitted that she was the one who killed her
husband. Unfortunately, Mariam also experienced injustice in the court. “There was no legal council, no public hearing, no cross-examining of
evidence, no appeals. The entire thing lasted less than fifteen minutes” 354.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of conclusions and suggestions. I can draw the conclusions based on the analysis. The other is suggestion which I divide into two
parts. Firstly is suggestion for future researchers and secondly is for English instructors.
A. Conclusions
After having analyzed the novel in chapter 4, I can conclude several points. There are some advantages and disadvantages that women faced during the
different regimes. The characters of Mariam and Laila represented the character of women. During the first regime which was Soviet Union, women got the
advantages in education, work and freedom. There were many schools for girls during the Soviet invasion. Women could work in the office, government and
school. They also had the freedom to choose what they had to wear. The character of Laila was one of the luckiest children because she could have a good
education. Her father also said that under the communist which was Soviet Union, women have more rights than they have ever had before. Many women
also work as teachers. Laila’s teacher, Khala Rangmaal, was one of the examples that women could work. Khala Rangmaal also showed that women got freedom
to choose if they wanted to wear veil or not. Those were the advantages during Soviet invasion. The novel did not tell any disadvantages that women faced.
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