Khaled Housseini wrote this book to educate others about the dire situation in his country. There is a qualitative progression to the story. The reader is always aware that things are not going to work out well for the women in the story. There is the repetitive form of the war that is always surrounding the characters. Their town or country is always being taken over by wither communists or some sort of terrorist group. This gives the foreshadowing effect of instability and unrest for these characters.
That feeling lasts until the end of the book because even though Laila has found her childhood love and they are a family, I found myself waiting for something bad to happen to them. The book even ends with talk of how bad the neighborhood she grew up in has become.
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