A major conflict in the story, Purple Hibiscus, is the addition of family members. After delivering Jaja, Mama was having a hard time being able to conceive a child. Mama and Papa had been trying to make a baby, time in and time out but the only think that was delivered were miscarriages and heartache. Mama blames herself for the longest at to it being her fault she couldn't have a child and decided it wasn't in God's interest for her to have anymore children. Then one day after six years of trying, Mama gets morning sickness and realizes she is now pregnant. This came to a surprise to the family because she had been trying to have a child since young Jaja was born. This pregnancy situation was an ongoing conflict for the family because each mourned for an addition, but n no way did they think it was going to be possible. An when it finally did happen, they were ecstatic. Eleven- week into the pregnancy, Mama got into an accident but didn't let the family know and went straight to the doctors. After seeing her children Mama confessed, "there was an accident, the baby I gone,(Adichie, page35)" and went back to sleep. This wasn't too uncommon for the family but was also a devastating statement no one wanted to hear. This photo shows a couple maybe depressed thinking about something and it reminded me of Mama and Papa. I say this because no maybe how disappointed they were about the inability to have a child, Papa never left her and remarried he always stayed by her side through it all.
Do you think that just because Mama had a miscarriage, Papa should have left her? i think thats a tad bit dramatic zaire. But nice pic, it really shows the emotions that Mama and papa must have felt when they found out that news.
ReplyDeleteI might put the blame of Beatrice not being able to have children on Eugene. Being able to have a child is not only a biological factor but an environmental factor as well. If you're in a bad environment like in the Achike household that's filled with anger, abuse and manipulation; that puts a lot of stress on the body and ultimately the baby. Then towards the end on the book Beatrice came clean about how she was a few weeks a long and Eugene smashed a table over her tummy, killing the baby. Even Kambili expressed her concern about her mother having another baby through her thoughts because she didn't want the baby to have to grow up around "Papa" and suffer the abuse that they do now.
ReplyDeleteI vividly remember that section of the book where Kambili and Jaja were talking about what'd they do with their siblings after he/she was bored, saying they would protect them from Papa. And that's very understandable bc papa is a control freak and inflicts harm(physically and emotionally) upon his family which he should be protecting. And I do agree environments effect the development of a child.
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