Throughout reading the novel Purple Hibiscus, I have realized that it is a difficult read, but it's not hard to understand and comprehend. Though Purple Hibiscus is more challenging than ATDPTI, it is no more challenging than Lord of the Flies. I have found that annotating helps me greatly when it comes to comprehending this novel. Marking the important things that happen in the book makes it easier for me to go back later and talk about it. Annotating has not been hard to keep up with, and I find at least a few things on each page that I feel I should mark.
Something that I find challenging is comprehending the situation in the novel when it comes to unfamiliar African words or rituals. Some of the prayers that the characters say makes me wonder what type of prayer they contain. Papa makes sure that his kids say some of these prayers everyday, so that makes me wonder what he's drawn to in the prayer. I also find some of the African phrases that aren't translated in the book. To solve this problem, I often google the terms, or read further in the book, in which some phrases might be explained later. I am enjoying this novel very much and am excited to see how it ends.
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