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Summary
In Purple Hibiscus, the novel discusses the oppression that the female characters experience and their strife for freedom. Beatrice personifies the stereotyped image of African women as subdued, victimized, voiceless and subservient. A human being’s voice is one of the person’s precious assets so, anyone without a voice is bound to go in search of it. In her journey to “find herself”, Beatrice takes the law into her hands, goes on a personal vendetta and slowly poisons Papa to death. She had to free herself and her children from the shackles of patriarchy, having had enough of the many years of subjugation and subservience characterized by domestic violence, verbal abuse and torture. Papa nearly beat kambili to death for possessing a painting of Papa Nnukwu (Eugene’s heathen father). “Mama does not talk back or challenge Papa’s violence against her but she takes action that speaks the loudest.
Also in Half of a Yellow Sun, document the multiple struggles of women to free themselves from sexual abuse , exploration , humiliation , depression , hunger and death. The novel depict the kind of struggles the teenage girls have to undergo in the hands of the soldiers.
