3.
Anxiety When Nana saw
the bowl, her face flushed red and her
upper lip shivered, and her eyes, both
the lazy one and the good, settled on
Mariam in a flat, unblinking way.
Nana looked so mad that Mariam
feared the jinn would enter her
mother’s body again.
The anxiety set in on Tuesday nights.
Mariam would sleep poorly,
fretting that some business
entanglement would prevent Jalil
from coming on Thursday, which
she would have to wait a whole other
week to see him. Then there was
blood and she was screaming. The
sound of feet now, slapping against the
wet cobblestones. Faces peering at
her through the steam. Tongues
clucking. 1, 3, 16
4, 19, 5
13, 81, 102 Her face is flushed and
her upper lip is shivered when she breaks a bowl
which is one of her mother’s loved
properties. She feels anxiety; she is afraid that
the jinn will enter her mother body.
Mariam is very anxiety and she can not sleep
smoothly when her father will visit her Thursday,
but on Tuesday night she begins to be afraid and
nervous that her father will not come at that day.
Mariam is quite anxiety when she goes to swim.
She looks blood in her two legs and she has a
miscarriage. Her husband, Rasheed, is
disappointed to her.
5.
Hopeless Some days, she
believed that the baby had been an
underserved blessing, that she
was being punished for what she had
done to Nana. She had passed
these years in a distant corner of
her mind. A dry, barren field, out
beyond wish and lament, beyond
dream and disillusionment.
There, the future did not matter.
“For me, it ends here. There’s
nothing more I want. Everything I
had ever wished for as a little girl you
have already given me. You and your
children have made me so very happy.
It’s all right, Laila. This is all right.
Don’t be sa 14, 84, 29
35, 229, 126
46, 319, 240 Mariam is hopeless
because she has no baby. Mariam has passes some
years and every season with injustice in her
neighborhood. It makes her hopeless and she can
only wish and dream. Mariam feels this life
should be ended and continue her life so that
she kills Rasheed. It is because there is not
expectation again to life. So, Mariam is responsible
for what she did to Rasheed and let Laila to
go with her little girl.
4.
Hopeless Some days, she
believed that the baby had been an
underserved blessing, that she
was being punished for what she had
done to Nana.
She had passed these years in a
distant corner of her mind. A dry,
barren field, out beyond wish and
lament, beyond dream and
disillusionment. There, the future
did not matter. “For me, it ends
here. There is nothing more I
want. Everything I had ever wished for
as a little girl you have already given
me. You and your children have made
me so very happy. It’s all right, Laila.
This is all right. Don’t be sad”
14, 84, 29
35, 229, 126
46, 319, 240 Mariam is hopeless to
have baby after the blood comes from her groin.
She believes the god has punished her for what she
has done to Nana. Mariam has been
hopeless with what happens in her life.
Because she has passed some years and every
season with injustice in her neighborhood, she
can only wish and dream. Mariam feels this life
should be ended and continue so that she kills
Rasheed. It is because there is not expectation
again to life. Mariam is responsible for what she
has done to Rasheed and let Laila to go with her
little girl.
B. Data Analysis
Characters are people in the story. They are the important elements to build the story. In narrative and dramatic works, the term character, characteristic and
characterization are usually used to refer to human creatures that live in fictional story. And then, characters are sometimes referred to round or flat and static or
dynamic. These types depend on the role of characters in the story.
1. Mariam’s Characteristics
The writer analyzes and discusses how the characteristics of Mariam described as round character. According to the tabulate those are some characteristics
of Mariam, which always change in her act. When the writer is reading the novel, Mariam is portrayed as a woman that
has many characteristics; those describe her as a round character. It starts from when she was five years old the first time she heard the word harami; she did not know
what the meaning of “harami” is. She was too young to hear word of harami, to appreciate the injustice and to see that they are her parents, Jalil and Nana. They were
culpable, not the Mariam, whose sin being born. She was surmised by the way Nana said that word, and that it was an ugly and loathsome thing to be a harami, like insect,
like the scurrying cockroach her mother was always cursing and sweeping out of kolba. Previously, Nana had been one of the housekeepers until her belly began
swelling. The wives Khadijah, Afsoon, and Nargis demanded that he throw her out. Nana’s own father, who was a lowly stone carver in the nearby village of Gul Daman,
disowned her. Because of that Mariam was depressed. When Mariam was older, she
did understand. It was the way her mother uttered the word harami that made she felt the full sting of it. She understood then what her mother meant, that harami was an
unwanted thing; that she, Mariam. Different from her father, Jalil. He never called Mariam by word harami. He said she was his little flower. He was fond of sitting her
on his lap and telling her stories.
Mariam’s life was covered by hopeless and dejected because it was
impossible for her to life with her father, Jalil. He did not allow coming at his house because Jalil’s family did not admit her as a stepchild, she can disgrace them. Nana
always prevented Mariam to meet Jalil because if she met him, it could happen with Nana. Mariam felt that Nana could not be happy. Nana had many bad thinking to Jalil
because he was irresponsible as father and husband duty. Mariam was disappointed and anxious when Nana died, because she decides to meet Jalil who had forbidden by
her mother. Mariam’s anxious increasingly when she was forced by Jalil’s wives Khadijah, Afsoon, and Nargis to marry with reach widower, Rasheed. Whereas, she
was still 15 years old and should have studied and played with her friends. Mariam’s Neurosis syndromes reactions slow-moving disappears when she
was married with Rasheed, who was the rich widower. Mariam felt that Rasheed could make her happy because of his behavior to her, from that time, Mariam had
many good thinking about Rasheed. She supposed if he was faithful to Rasheed. But Mariam’s life just moment when she goes to hamam bathhouse, she had never been
to a bathhouse, but he said there was nothing finer than stepping out and taking that
first breath of cold air, to feel the heat rising from the skin. Suddenly when Mariam had been taken a bath there was blooding and she was screaming that she has a
miscarriage her baby. In this case Rasheed’s behavior changed he was only serious to do his job as a merchant of shoes. He spent his time with cigarette in the small top in
Kabul because of that Mariam was dejected by his indifferent as husband. Rasheed’s behavior that made Mariam disappointed and hopeless became
increasing in her disappointment and hate growing when he want to marry with Laila, who was the rich daughter and . The lifestyle of Mariam was complicated and
dejected after hearing that news. After marriage with Laila he wants a son, but Laila had born a daughter. In this case, he was angry, brutal and incredible with both of
them until he bet, whipped, and even kicked. Beside that lifestyle of their family became poor because of his shoe store was bankrupt. Those problems made Mariam
depressed and dejected. She had to have high tolerance attitude to exit in this case, she had to transform herself to become an anxious woman and she herself should had
to decide to kill Rasheed. So that, in a moment Mariam killed Rasheed when he was fight with Laila in which Laila almost died. Mariam hit Rasheed’s head with a shovel
during a violent struggle until he died. In this case, she assumed that the death would end her suffer. It could disappear in her life until expectation, happiness, and also new
life she got even thought she has to go to jail by getting death penalty. The writer concludes that in A Thousand Splendid Suns Mariam experienced
neurosis syndrome reactions that have to be handled to get happiness. She believed there are kindnesses of thousand in this world even in the hereafter. All of Mariam
characteristics appeared from her holding her behavior for many years which described in the story.
2. The Neurosis Syndrome Reactions of Mariam Viewed from Theory of Alfred
Adler a. Anxiety Reaction
Anxiety reaction is fairly common caused by a great anxiety and stress. It is estimated that about 2 to 4 percent of the general population have at some time been
diagnosed as having either a phobic reaction or some other anxiety disorders. This will be generalized as obsessive-compulsive reaction, and phobic reaction.
The writer analyzes and discusses how far that anxiety reaction concept reflects in the characters of Mariam. In abnormal psychology, anxiety reaction is
experienced by the people of 25-32 and can decrease during the increase of age. The problem of anxiety commonly happens for women.
In the beginning of the chapter one of this novel the readers can see the indication of anxiety disorder. When Mariam heard the word harami, she didn’t
understand at all and she didn’t know what this word harami meant. Mariam was surmised by the word that Nana said that it means ugly and loathsome thing to be a
harami and like an insect. The next time, when she was growing, the anxiety has
disappeared, the anxiety of being insulted. She got nervous every times she heard the word harami
and Mariam’s throat felt obstructed.
