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Purple Hibiscus (Characterization (Papa (Static character (At home, Papa…
Purple Hibiscus
Characterization
Papa
Static character
At home, Papa is a strict authoritarian. He has rigid rules and impossibly high standards for his wife and children, and hurts them—for what he sees as their own benefit—whenever he perceives that they have sinned or failed.
Mama
Dynamic character
Kambili’s mother, a quiet, submissive woman who takes care of her children but does not speak out against Papa’s violence. After Kambili’s birth she suffers several miscarriages because of Papa’s beatings.
Jaja
Kambili's older brother
Jaja feels guilty about being unable to protect Kambili and Mama from Papa. In Nsukka he discovers a passion for gardening, and he quickly feels more at home with Aunty than with Papa.
Kambili
the protagonist
The novel’s narrator, a fifteen-year-old girl who is quiet and withdrawn, but an excellent student. After visiting Aunty she slowly starts to talk and open up more.
Aunty
Static character
Papa’s sister, a tall, outspoken woman who is a professor at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Ifeoma ultimately helps both Jaja and Kambili find their voices and independence.
Setting
In post-colonial Nigeria
Papa is described as a “colonial product”: a man who has bought into the colonialist mindset. Though he is Nigerian, Papa believes that white people do everything better, and he wants everything in his life to be Western and modern.
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Theme
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Related to the strictness of Papa’s beliefs and the corruption of the Nigerian government is an important theme of freedom, and its opposite, tyranny. Politically, Papa and Ade Coker represent a freedom of the press that protests against the censorship and corruption of the Head of State.
Plot
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Kambili and Jaja were so scared because Papa seems like he is also going to hit them. Papa is going to slap Jaja in his face, and Jaja stops him and grab his sister to runaway.
They went to Grandpa’s house because they have nowhere else to go, they saw Auntie there. Kids explained what happened, Auntie told them to get away from papa.
Kids were finally encouraged by someone, they made a plan.
Kambili and Jaja were introduced to a rich guy that she knew, they started to work at his house as a part time job.
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One day, their teacher called their parents, papa went to work, mama picked up the telephone. Mama was being told that the kids are skipping class recently.
Mama asked them what’s happening after school, the kids told her the truth.
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After a few months, Kambili, Jaja, and Mama secretly moved to grandpa(mama’s papa)’s house.
Point of View
It is the first person point of view in the novel, and it is second person point of view in our play.
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