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Sunny’s Mother
Sunny’s father is a stern, traditional Nigerian man. Though he loves his wife, Sunny’s mother, and his two sons Ugonna and Chukwu, Sunny believes her father hates her: he never wanted a daughter, and he, like many other Nigerians, thinks Sunny is unattractive and lesser because of her albinism. He’s also more violent than his wife when Sunny misbehaves. Sunny’s mother assures Sunny that her dad loves her, but that he’s just sexist in a way that’s all too common among Nigerian men of his generation. For instance, Sunny’s mother insists that it’s this sexism that causes her husband to resent Ozoemena (his mother-in-law). She thinks it’s also why he has always disliked Sunny, as he believes she was more likely to be “different” (that is, a Leopard Person) than a son—when in fact, this isn’t true. He did, however, move back to Nigeria at his wife’s request to keep Sunny safe.
Sunny’s Father Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Sunny’s Father or refer to Sunny’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Her father believed that all one needed to succeed in life was an education. He had gone to school for many years to become a barrister, and then gone on to be the most successful child in his family. Sunny’s mother was an MD, and often talked about how excelling in school had opened opportunities to her that girls only two decades before didn’t normally get. So Sunny believed in education, too. But here was Chichi’s mother, surrounded by the hundreds of books she’d read, living in a decrepit old mud hut with her daughter.
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Chapter 5
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She closed her eyes and soaked in the warm light. She didn’t need to stand in there for an hour to know—she knew deep in her skin. The sunshine felt like a warm friend, not an angry enemy. She didn’t need her umbrella anymore.
“Oh my goodness,” she whispered. “I can play soccer!”
Realizing what she was was the beginning of something, all right…but it was also the end of something else.
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Chapter 12
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“Your parents born here?”
“Yeah,” she said.
“Then you from here and there. Dual thing, you know?”
She laughed. “If you say so.”
“I know so.”
“So what’s that make me, then?”
“Who cares?” he said. “You want a juju knife, right?”
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Sunny’s Father Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Sunny’s Father or refer to Sunny’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
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Her father believed that all one needed to succeed in life was an education. He had gone to school for many years to become a barrister, and then gone on to be the most successful child in his family. Sunny’s mother was an MD, and often talked about how excelling in school had opened opportunities to her that girls only two decades before didn’t normally get. So Sunny believed in education, too. But here was Chichi’s mother, surrounded by the hundreds of books she’d read, living in a decrepit old mud hut with her daughter.
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Chapter 5
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She closed her eyes and soaked in the warm light. She didn’t need to stand in there for an hour to know—she knew deep in her skin. The sunshine felt like a warm friend, not an angry enemy. She didn’t need her umbrella anymore.
“Oh my goodness,” she whispered. “I can play soccer!”
Realizing what she was was the beginning of something, all right…but it was also the end of something else.
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12
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“Your parents born here?”
“Yeah,” she said.
“Then you from here and there. Dual thing, you know?”
She laughed. “If you say so.”
“I know so.”
“So what’s that make me, then?”
“Who cares?” he said. “You want a juju knife, right?”
