Purple Hibiscus Skills

While reading Purple Hibiscus, I found that just fully understanding the book in general was difficult. Sometimes I would get lost when the author was talking about something that I did not know about. For example, in the beginning of Purple Hibiscus, the author uses the word "missal" and I did not know what that was. This kind of threw me off when trying to understand the rest of the chapter. In-depth discussion in class has really helped me to understand the exact meaning of occurrences in items throughout Purple Hibiscus.

Another thing that I found difficult while reading Purple Hibiscus is understanding the symbolic meaning of things such as a purple hibiscus. I wasn't really sure what to make of the title of the book and how to connect it to the context. Other items in Purple Hibiscus made it hard to understand the overall meaning of the book. In this case, class discussions were also very helpful because we really talked about the symbolic meaning of things like the purple hibiscus throughout the course of the book. I really find in class discussion to be very beneficial to my overall understanding of Purple Hibiscus.