Through Aunty Ifeoma and her children, Adichie represents her idea of a healthy family-one that creates community and love, but also accepts differences and supports individuals as they grow and change. Jaja and Kambili first discover freedom and joy there, and they don’t want to leave. When she was19, she left Nigeria on a scholarship to Drexel University in Philadelphia. She soon dropped out to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s magnum opus, Purple. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Purple Hibiscus, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.

They see how different they are from Ifeoma’s family, and start to realize how unhealthy and rigid their own family dynamic is. Purple Hibiscus to exhibit and address the aspect of the ideological configurations of gender and power. These two families overlap when Kambili and Jaja go to stay with Aunty Ifeoma. They are also close with Papa-Nnukwu, as they don’t see him as a “heathen” like Papa does. In contrast, Aunty Ifeoma and her children- Amaka, Obiora, and Chima-all speak their minds, laugh often, and are encouraged to debate and question. They also have very little contact with their grandfather, aunt, or cousins, and live secluded in their immediate family. Kambili and Jaja are very close, though they rarely speak. Released in October 2003 to wide critical acclaim. This quiet order is based around the terror of Papa’s sporadic violence for anything he sees as sinful or disobedient. Purple Hibiscus - Adichie started writing her first book, Purple Hibiscus, as a senior at Eastern. First we see the family dynamic of Kambili’s family, where they all live in silence and fear, following Papa’s strict rules and schedules. Centring on the promise of freedom and the pain and exhilaration of adolescence, Purple Hibiscus is the extraordinary debut of a remarkable new talent.Author Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 0007189885, 9780007189885Format PaperbackPages 307p.Purple Hibiscus takes place mostly on the familial level, dealing with the relations between Papa, Mama, Jaja, and Kambili, and then their relations with Papa-Nnukwu, Aunty Ifeoma, and her children. In this house, full of energy and laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. When Nigeria begins to fall apart during a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer.

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