![]() ![]() In her bed, she thought to know what possessed Jaja, and so “… let my mind rake through the past, through the years when Jaja and Mama and I spoke more with our spirits than with our lips. ![]() 22), and she’s forced to stay “… in bed and did not have dinner with the family”. The continued effrontery from Jaja to Papa, even at the dinner table, makes Kambili sickly as “My the body shook from the coughing” (p. This is when “Things started to fall apart at home…” as Jaja stands to reply his father to his face. This anger nursed and nurtured right from the church becomes fully expressed as “Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagère” (p. The story begins in the home of Eugene (Papa as fondly called by his children), who on realizing that his son, Jaja broke God’s Palm Sunday by not attending Mass for the day, got ablaze with anger over his son. This was the period in which the characters, particularly Papa (Uncle Eugene), the father of Jaja and Kambili existed. And under this dispensation, it was taboo for civilians, in whatever form, say, the press, newspapers, political parties, pressure groups etc., to confront the government. ![]() It is a time that the civil rights of the people and the constitution are suspended for the decrees of the military. ![]() The background of the book is all about the period when the military was in charge of Nigeria. Lesson 1 The Background Of Purple Hibiscus ![]()
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