Quotes: Nature Flashcards
They seemed to bloom so fast, those red hibiscuses
It didn’t take long for rigidity and fear to become part of someone’s life and the fast-growing red hibiscus symbolises it.
Jaja’s defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom.
A freedom to be, to do.
The name of the book “Purple Hibiscus” symbolises freedom, rarity and a sense of independence compared to the rigid, jail-like and dominating red hibiscus.
Silence hung over the table like the blue-black clouds in the middle of rainy season.
The silence at the dining table after Mama had vomited after coming back from Father Benedict’s is compared to the heavy clouds in the rainy season waiting to burst.
I would snuggle into Papa’s arms when harmattan thunderstorms raged outside, flinging mangoes against the window netting and making the electric wires hit each other and spark bright orange flames. Papa would lodge me between his knees or wrap me in the cream blanket that smelled of safety.
For Kambili, the dangers of nature, of anything really, could be solved by Papa; he was the ultimate saviour, the one with all the answers in the world, the one who could make everything alright, everything okay, like before, like haven.
