LIFE’S ONLY GUARANTEE Student Name

THE ONLY TRUTH

• Life is full of lies and false promises.

• There is only one thing we can all count on: our search for meaning in our relatively short lives.

NO BLACK WITHOUT WHITE

-Are we dying as soon as we’re born?-There is no life without death

LOVE OUTLASTS LIFEA THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS• This idea impacts

Mariam before she dies

• Peoples love and memories outlasts life

• “yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved…”

• Mariam searches for love and friendship; only at the end of her life does she find meaning by helping Layla escape Rasheed.

• Afterlife versus Atheism• “when you die you're dead

and that’s it.”• Western Culture emphasizes

religious beliefs which somehow are supposed to give us meaning in life.

• Oskar’s goal is too narrow, too focused on what he has lost, not what he has to look forward to.

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

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