She is very outgoing and could make friends almost instantly. I (as a follower) started modeling what she did and, whether I liked it or not, talking to more people. This friendship opened me up to a whole new group of friends, people I had never really talked to before. I also highlighted qualities in her. While she brought out a more social side in me, I brought out a more thoughtful and peaceful side in her, almost like Mariam and Laila. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Laila brings Mariam out of her shell after Laila marries Rasheed. Before Laila, Mariam listened to all the men in her life who told her what to do. As she and Laila became friends, Mariam became more outgoing and outspoken. The act that proved who Mariam had become was the murder of Rasheed, which showed everything she had become, a strong woman. “And yet she left the world as a woman who had loved and who had been loved. » (Hosseini 329) I haven't proven that I have changed by killing someone, but my change can be seen in my group of friends, in happiness, and even in my school