Trauma is not simply a situational factor; it has a direct impact on the lives of the characters as it acts not only as a personal crisis but also as a social wound that has a long-term cultural implication.In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini sets the plot on war, political instability and the continued violence against women.Both Mariam and Laila are witnesses and survivors and the way they relate and cope with war, loss and abuse reveals that repressed past can be dealt with so that both can recover on a personal and social front.This paper examines in terms of the trauma theory, the aspects of silence and suffering.The alternation of the 'acting out' and 'working through' discussed by LaCapra provides us with the picture of how characters change as they process memory and loss.Judith Herman presents in her threefold model a safety, remembrance, reconnecting model, the long-term process of despair to resilience that is demonstrated in the novel.
Somya, et al. (Wed,) studied this question.