Purple Hibiscus Essay

The fact that “Purple Hibiscus” is a coming of age novel, the narrator Kambili finds herself having to mature and grow faster then she imagined. The Tyrannical and abusive lifestyle that her father inflicts upon her and the rest of her family, leaves Kambili with lasting effects from the violence. This idea is the same in “The Perils of Indifference” speech where it’s easy to see that there are profound lasting effects from World War 2 on those who survived, due to the horrific violence that Hitler inflicted.

These two texts are connected through the idea of the profound effects of violence and abuse and. In “Purple Hibiscus” Adichie creates Kambili as a young passive girl, who constantly strives to please her father in order to save herself from punishment if she makes a mistake. However, as the novel progresses and she starts to question her father’s tyrannical ways, she is inflicted with more and more abuse. Not only does the idea apply to the narrator Kambili, but also to her mother who

Each Author has used their text to portray the violence and struggles that come with being Politically Oppressed, and how easy indifference and violence can follow on from it. After reading all four of the texts, the reader is left with a lasting impression, as the attitudes taken by the authors is that of great passion and strife. Each author has lived through a lifetime of indifference and violence, (in a country where extreme politics and or Dictatorship raged) and therefore has a purpose of showing the reader an insight into what they have had to live through. When we read these texts, we are left questioning ourselves and what we would do if we were ever put in a situation like what these four authors have had to live through, and also how so many people could just turn a blind eye to the indifference that clearly happens in this