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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Final Prompt

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  • In a novel by William Styron, a father tells a son that “life is a search for justice.” Choose a character from A Thousand Splendid Suns who responds in some significant way to justice or an injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character’s understanding of justice, the degree to which the character’s search for justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole.