Purple Hibiscus Literary Devices

Key Examples in Purple Hibiscus

Explanation and Analysis—Answers You Know:

Kambili and Jaja are so connected that they can often communicate without speaking. However, it doesn’t make it any easier to talk about their abusive home life, as this passage suggests:

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

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Explanation and Analysis—Everything I Do:

In this passage, which occurs after Eugene has viciously punished Kambili, Adichie uses situational irony to show the disconnect between Eugene’s justification for his abuse and the harm he inflicts on Kambili:

‘Everything I do for you, I do for your own good,’ Papa said. ‘You know that?’

‘Yes, Papa.’ I still was not sure if he knew about the painting.

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Purple Hibiscus: Situational Irony 2 key examples

Key Examples in Purple Hibiscus