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PURPLE HIBISCUS

Chimamanda N

GOZI ADICHIE

This very touching book is not only about the fifteen-year-old Kambili’s disintegrating family BUT also about a country that is itself falling to pieces

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This very touching book is not only about the fifteen-year-old Kambili’s disintegrating family BUT also about a country that is itself falling to pieces

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the awakening awareness of the painfully shy adolescent girl on the brink of womanhood.

the awakening awareness of the painfully shy adolescent girl on the brink of womanhood.

Continuation of the story

The story takes place in post-colonial Nigeria and,

quite at the beginning of the novel, we read about

unrests and finally about a military coup that takes place and the very rich family, which lives in a

superb house and surrounding, where the

purple hibiscus runs rampant over the tidy

garden as the children and their mother test their

freedom

The story takes place in post-colonial Nigeria and,

quite at the beginning of the novel, we read about

unrests and finally about a military coup that takes place and the very rich family, which lives in a

superb house and surrounding, where the

purple hibiscus runs rampant over the tidy

garden as the children and their mother test their

freedom

CONTINUATION OF THE STORY

, This sentence makes us understand that in this family not everything is as it seems. The father, Eugene, an entrepreneur who also publishes the very critical newspaper, Standard, and is very

generous towards people in need but does not behave at all in this way towards his own family, on the contrary, he is a tyrant.

This sentence makes us understand that in this family not everything is as it seems. The father, Eugene, an entrepreneur who also publishes the very critical newspaper, Standard, and is very

generous towards people in need but does not behave at all in this way towards his own family, on the contrary, he is a tyrant.


who decides about

everything his children and wife have to do or achieve. If they do not reach the goals he has fixed for them, he

punishes them in the most cruel ways. Eugene

misunderstands completely, according to me,

Catholicism. It hurts me to read how hard and

disrespectful he is towards his father, who sticks to his

traditional beliefs.

who decides about everything his children and

wife have to do or achieve. If they do not reach the goals he has fixed for them, he

punishes them in the most cruel ways. Eugene

misunderstands completely, according to me,

Catholicism. It hurts me to read how hard and

disrespectful he is towards his father, who sticks to his

traditional beliefs.


The Purple Hibiscus

opens on Palm Sunday, that day when Jaja,

Kambili’s brother dares to say that he doesn’t go to communion and his father, therefore,

flings his heavy missal across the room and

breaks the figurines on the étagère.

The Purple Hibiscus opens on Palm Sunday,

that day when Jaja, Kambili’s brother dares to say that he doesn’t go to communion and his father, therefore,

flings his heavy missal across the room and

breaks the figurines on the étagère.


I would almost like to say that the military coup also has a positive side, because thanks to it, Jaja and Kambili can go to their aunt Ifeoma, a university professor and widow, who has to struggle in order to bring up her three children on her own. In that house, however, there is a complete different kind of atmosphere. Despite the fact that the youngsters have to peel yam or otherwise help at home, there is laughter all around, opinions are permitted, they may sleep with their non Catholic grandfather and it’s there that Kambili falls in love with Father Amadi, who seems to be the good soul of young and old and who is, maybe, a little bit to good to be true!

Eugene’s position against the government is getting very difficuIt and he is coping less and less with the situation at home.

I would almost like to say that the military coup also has a positive side, because thanks to it, Jaja and Kambili can go to their aunt Ifeoma, a university professor and widow, who has to struggle in order to bring up her three children on her own. In that house, however, there is a complete different kind of atmosphere. Despite the fact that the youngsters have to peel yam or otherwise help at home, there is laughter all around, opinions are permitted, they may sleep with their non Catholic grandfather and it’s there that Kambili falls in love with Father Amadi, who seems to be the good soul of young and old and who is, maybe, a little bit to good to be true!

Eugene’s position against the government is getting very difficuIt and he is coping less and less with the situation at home.

THE END

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I’m not going to tell you anything about the unexpected end; you will have to read the book and find out for yourself. THANKS FOR READING THIS SUMMARY


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