I am glad to say that Purple Hibiscus is a very good book and I am enjoying it very much. It is a very challenging book and it takes up a lot of my time, especially since I have baseball everyday after school. The main challenge that I am having is that it takes up some much of my time. I am reading about an hour a day and on top of my other school work it gets to be pretty intense. The main way I am coping is by dedicating my study hall to reading Purple Hibiscus for the next night. This allows me to get my reading out of the way so I can do other work later. The other hard part of this book is understanding it fully. They way I deal with this problem is through my annotations. I get to look in-depth at the book while I am reading it and it seems to help me understand it. From my understanding that is what the Bread and Butter assignments are supposed to accomplish.
Another challenge that I am facing with this book is the choice of the Post Colonial Menu provided by Dr. D. Many of the choices look appetizing and I can only chose one. I could do more of the options, but Baseball is cutting into my time at home so that throws extra assignments for fun out the window. The final challenge I am facing is suppressing the stereotypes of African society. I have so many preconceived notions about Africa and a lot of the contradict what I am seeing from the novel. One example is I though most everybody in Africa was very very poor. We see Kambili and Jaja living a rich life style and we see Aunty Ifeoma's family having electricity and running water, all be it only in the morning. All pos these challenges are welcome in my mind because if I am not being challenged then I am not learning anything and I am learning a lot for Purple Hibiscus.
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