Purple Hibiscus Characters

Question 1

Jaja (3quotes)

Answer 1

Jaja’s defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom

I should have taken care of Mama. Look how Obiora balances Aunty Ifeoma’s family on his head, and I am older that he is. I should have taken care of Mama.

Question 2

Kambili

Answer 2

I knew that when the tea burned my tongue, it burned Papa’s love into me

The old silence had broken and left us with the sharp pieces

I laughed. was not sure I had ever heard myself laugh.

a different kind of silence, one that lets me breathe

pressed my lips together, biting my lower lip, so my mouth would not join in the singing on its own, so my mouth would not betray me.

Question 3

Papa Eugene

Answer 3

I cannot participate in a pagan funeral

You should strive for perfection. You should not see sin and walk right into it

Question 4

Aunty Ifeoma

Answer 4

The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

Aunty Ifeoma sat back and watched them, eating slowly. She looked like a football coach who had done a good job with her team and was satisfied to stand next to the eighteen-yard box and watch

Aunty Ifeoma snapped her fingers at Papa; she was throwing a curse at him. Tears rolled down her cheeks.

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them