Rasheed is a villain from Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. Nasty, violent-tempered, smug, and thoroughly heartless, he spends the entire book ruining the lives of the protagonists in a myriad of ways, such as marrying a 15-year-old and promptly raping her, tricking a 14-year-old into marrying him immediately after her entire family is killed by paying a man to tell her her surviving love interest is dead, beating the tar out of his wives on a daily basis, completely neglecting his daughter in favor of his son, forcing one of his wives to eat pebbles because he thought her rice was undercooked, shoving a gun into the mouth of one of his wives, and finally trying to strangle her to death. What little sympathy the author tries to create for him by letting us know his first son died