The title of this first section, “Breaking Gods,” implies a shattered spirituality, reflected in Mama’s (Beatrice Achike’s) broken figurines, and the fury with which Papa (Eugene Achike) throws his missal, God’s word, at Jaja (Chukwuka Achike), the son who rejects his father’s God. She found her voice in Nsukka and she matured in the process.The novel begins with its climax, a violent domestic scene resulting from many months of frustration and change. She acknowledged the way Papa treated Mama and she saw that it was wrong. She only said what was on her mind, but she also saw how wrong they were treated before. В Kambili didn’t act rebellious in the way Jaja did when they came back after the visit to Nsukka, but Kambili rebelled in a respectful way. Kambili becomes more vulnerable to openly speak her mind and she learns to stand up to Papa when she went back home after the visit in Nsukka. This new developments in her life leads to drastic changes within herself. Kambili grows closer-and-closer to her extended family. One of the new people she meets is Father Amadi. She meets new people when she and Amaka becomes friends. В Kambili’s stay in Nsukka with aunty Ifeoma made her experience a new environment. Kambili fell inlove with Father Amadi and that lead to the fact that Kambili looked up to Father Amadi and not her Papa anymore. Kambili felt free after she had done that. Kambili told her family ‘I smiled, run, laughed’ and those three things never happened before. He gave Kambili the confidence to run after him after he convinced her. Father Amadi unporpously encouraged Kambili to find her inner voice when he burst out singing in the middle of prayer one Sunday. However, not only did her family play a roll, but Father Amadi also did. Amaka tells Kambili ‘So you can be this loud'(P.170) and this statement shows the reader that Kambili is getting her own voice. After this incident, Amaka respected Kambili on a new level that she never had. This was the first time that Kambili stood up for herself. Kambili replies to Amaka’s comment with, ‘You don’t have to shout, Amaka’ (P.170).

В We see the influence of aunty Ifeoma when she tells Kambili to talk back to Amaka when Amaka mocked the fact that Kambili can’t cook. This change in Kambili shows later on when she starts to go against what her father tells her to do. This gesture of aunty Ifeoma made Kambili less dependable on her father. During their visit to Nsukka, aunty Ifeoma took Kambili and Jaja’s schedules that their father gave them, and that made them feel free. When they visited Nsukka they experienced a different lifestyle.Ī lifestyle where they felt free.

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