Pentecost Sunday By Aunty Ifeoma

Pentecost Sunday. However, the matter of his little finger is unaware of Kambili until he reveals the truth to her Aunty Ifeoma. Beatrice Achike feels ill health because of her pregnancy, she wants to take rest, and wants to stay in car when they are went to see Father Benidict in his house after mass. Her face reveals her ill health and uneasy but Eugene stares her. She perfectly manages her critical situation with her husband. After return from Father Benedict house, he beats her violently. He breaks small sturdy table on her belly while she carries baby as a result she gets miscarriage. Kambili takes cornflakes for taking tablets for her period pain.

She takes it with help of her mother Beatrice and she suggested her take it fast before see her husband. Unfortunately, the action reverses her and Papa-Eugene punishes her severely. The history of violence is not come to end. Their father scalds Kambili and Jaja’s feet because they sleep, eat in the same house with their grandfather at aunty

After this fearful incident, she refuses to go home from hospital because she thinks there is no more safety from her father. Being isolation in school, family and home even in society, Kambili and Jaja does not know how to behave others. For example, they are in Ifeoma’s house. Amaka’s complaints Kambili’s behavior when her friends came to meet her to Ifeoma. That is she does not know how to speak and how to behave with others. That is why, she receives negative comments from Amaka and have question whether she is abnormal or normal. In Ifeoma’s house Kambili and Jaja starts to analyze the different atmosphere in Enugu and Nsukka. Through the words of Kambili, we can see the differences. Laughing sound is overheard and echoed and her cousins talk non-stop in Nsukka. In Enugu, all observe the silence and they speak about a purpose of their family only at the time of