Essays on Purple Hibiscus

“Those who are oppressed are motivated by exactly that. They feel a need to go beyond their oppression to prove to themselves that they are no longer oppressed.” The novels that I have read clearly show that the characters experience oppression, whether it’s verbal oppression...

The novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie, set in post-colonial Nigeria during the Civil War in the late 1960s, is a bildungsroman that focuses greatly on family relationships as well as religious and cultural ideals. The passage describing Kambili and Jaja’s first meal at their...

In the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the main character Kambili and her family goes through the motions of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a very serious issue that people have to go through everyday, according to statistics “ Nearly 1 million women...

Each child has their own individual flying hues which makes them novel and let them emerge from each other however what happens when the hues that they have are being caught in an enclosure and are not yet allowed to fly. Those who are being...

Storytelling has a powerful role in the way societies questions the impacts of traditional culture and promotes change. “Purple Hibiscus and Whale rider” highlight the consequences of gender assumptions in a patriarchal society while promoting an alternative. In Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Adichie criticises sexist views...