Purple Hibiscus Analysis Essay My connection was when my cousin took the fall for something that I did.It was when we fought these two boys in a parking lot and the police came and said that he did it so I would not have a record.Jaja did the same for his mother when she killed Papa.I felt that my cousin had my back that he was not going to let nothing happen to his little cousin.Purple Hibiscus by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie had many interesting characters like Kambili,Jaja,Mama,Papa,and Aunty Ifeoma.Kambili had many adversities throughout the book,in the beginning she faced the adversities of that Kambili’s classmates did not like her because she felt she was all that,in the middle of the book she faced adversities of Papa Nnukwu dying and in the end Aunty Ifeoma going to America.The roman poet Horace once wrote,”Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. In Purple Hibiscus,Adichie ultilizes the character Kambili to prove this idea to be true,but only when someone is an envirnoment that fosters change. In the Beginning of Purple Hibiscus,Kambili’s adversities does not elicit talents that she never knew she had which disproves Horea’s argument that adversity leaves a positive change.I feel that her adversities do not elicit new talents because she was the same as how she established herself in the beginning of the book.She still was shy,truthful,and afraid of the