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ABSTRACT
Adichie's novel, Purple Hibiscus gives its readers a vivid insight on the damage physical and emotional abuse can do to a person. The novel serves its purpose of showing the traumatic experience of each characters and how it affects them all. Ranging from Beatrice down to Kambili, the reader is able to work through their minds and understand their sufferings. Although generally Eugene is a man who loves his family and would go through any length to show them. He takes care of them and provides the basic needs, this can only be done by a father who is responsible and also knows his responsibilities. Throughout the novel, Eugene never wants his family to starve neither does he want them to be behind even in his life because he involves them in all he does. Papa’s downfall or will I say wrong doings is his seeking for perfection. He forgets that even the white man who owns the religion is not perfect and religion should not be used to inconvenient its worshipers. Throughout the novel, Eugene's only fault is seen when his family doesn’t follow the path he lays out, this only shows that no man is flawless and Eugene is not an exception. The characters who suffers this violence shows the readers not to accept defeat and all manner of fight backs is accepted, even silence in the novel is a tool to fight back as seen in the case of the Achike's children. These children although separated from the world due to their father’s great expectations from them 49 somehow saw life outside their father’s views and decided to stand up for themselves in the best way they can. Adichie uses the novel to educate women who don’t see themselves becoming anything outside marriage, who feels that a man who feeds and clothes them is a god and this things have made him irreplaceable. Adichie tries to correct this mindset and also let her readers know the negative effects and impact domestic violence have on the children who are being forced to grow in such environment.
