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Examples Of Kambili In Purple Hibiscus

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As a young child, my dad use to beat all of us if 1 person did something wrong and we knew about the situation and didn’t tell on them. Kambili, the main character in P.H., also experience the feeling of getting beat when someone did wrong or she did wrong by her father. In the story Purple Hibiscus the author Chimamanda NGozi adichie gives background story on Eugene, Beatrice, Jaja, and Kambili. Eugene beat his family every chance he got and Beatrice got pregnant many times, but Eugene killed the babies. Beatrice wanted to leave with Kambili and Jaja, but she didn’t know how to leave. She got so fed up, she killed Eugene by poisoning him, but Jaja took the blame and went to jail for Beatrice. 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 utilizes the character Kambili to prove this idea to be true, that Kambili actually has made love for someone she never knew she would get.

In the beginning of purple hibiscus, kambili’s adversites do not elicit talents …show more content…

Kambili and mama went to go see Jaja in jail. On page 299 it says, “Jaja will not talk to me about his incident spit in the guards face which is not like him.” Kambili is worried about Jaja being in jail because he is not himself, which proves Horace quote is true because she has developed feelings that she hasn’t developed before. Kambili carries around father Amadis letters. On page 303 it states,”i carry them around because they are long and detailed, because they remind me of my worthiness because they tug out my feelings.” Kambili is in love with father Amadi. This is the first time she finds someone that she cares about. Which proves that Horace’s quote is true because she changed throughout the

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" Since then, the boy carefully watched for his father's movement. When the parents or someone that the child lives with abuse them, they suddenly have to protect themselves from being abused by watching their actions or thinking about how to fight against the parents. In the other hands, children tend to grow up and act like their parents and they do the exact same thing that their parents used to do with them when they were a kid. Child abuse effects on a child's life greatly.

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and the story continuously say. “Only two weeks ago, he had beaten fwadaus for spilling a pitcher of milk. She’d fallen and hit her head, knocking herself unconsciously for thirty seconds. She’d come to still lying on the floor as her uncle was shouting at her auntie not to help her.” This shows how physical abuse of her uncle pushed fwadaus

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I have seen people beaten on television and in the movies. I had seen the red blood substitute streak across their backs and heard their well-rehearsed screams. But I hadn’t lain nearby and smelled their sweat or heard them pleading and praying, shamed before their families and themselves. I was probably less prepared for the reality than the child crying not far from me. In fact, she and I were reacting very much alike.

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Most of the Jews and Eli would get beaten all the time for the worst unnecessary things. For example, they would get abused for not having enough energy to work or do something, but in reality they were being starved so they did not have any energy to begin with. In this quote, “He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again” (Weisel 53). This was described when Eli just walked past one of the Kapos offices, and got beaten for invading privacy and interrupting him even though he did not say a word or barely looked at the

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Papa uses violence to correct his children’s errors seeing as he believes that it is the only way to change them. This can be seen when he beats Kambili because she had a picture of a “pagan”, the beating is described as “stinging” and being “more like bites because the metal landed on open skin” (211). Papa truly believes that his violence should be used to correct his children’s flaws and he believes he is helping them out. Regardless of this justification, it is apparent that Papa uses his violence to establish his power which can be seen through the silence that follows the abuse. For example, after Mama loses the baby due to Papa’s violence, the whole family stays silent about it and pretends as if Papa did not do anything wrong (32-34).

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Kambili takes on the role of being a comforter because she comforted her mother in her time of need. Which proves that Horace’s quote is true because other times her mom was beaten, she didn’t comfort her, but this particular time she comforts her mom after being beaten which shows her growth and maturity

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This line is spoken from Kambili’s thoughts. This demonstrates the effects of how

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longer followed by feelings of guilt that papa’s moralistic Christian worldview provoked in her earlier. Even though his teenage romance does not end happily from kambili’s viewpoint, her relationship with father Amadi is a strongly empowering one: not only does it allow her to find her sexual identity, but it also allows her to find a more tolerant and liberal interpretation, of religiousness and, above all, the courage of questioning. Later, father Amadi, with his tender and supportive attitude, becomes a new masculine authority for kambili, who believes that “his word is true” (302). Kambili’s admiration of father Amadi signals yet again her desperate need for a father figure. While the focus is Purple Hibiscus is admittedly the national, the transnational dimension represents an important narrative bypath.

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