Reading Response to Purple Hibiscus

     The Purple Hibiscus is a great book so far. What I find interesting in this book, is the vivid details used to portray a scene in the book. For example, on page thirty-three, it says "We cleaned up the trickle of blood, which trailed away as if someone had carried a leaking jar of red watercolor all the way downstairs. Jaja scrubbed while I wiped." The vivid details used in this scene portrays when Kambili and Jaja had to clean mama's blood when she got another miscarriage. The details in the scene show how emotionless the brother and sister are since they are used to cleaning up the mother's blood after the father had beaten her up.
     Another scene that has great details as well as on page forty is "Who came first?" Papa asked, finally. "Chinwe Jideze. "Jideze? The girl who came second last term?" "Yes," I said. My stomach was making sounds, hollow rumbling sounds that seemed too loud, that would not stop even when I sucked in my belly. Papa looked at my report card for a while longer; then he said, "Come down for dinner." This scene uses the detail to describe how Kambili felt when her dad looked at her report card. The details used to describe how she felt nervous and her stomach got butterflies describe the feeling how Kambili knew that she did not do good since she had come second in her class. With the vivid details used in this book, it can make one feel and imagine what the characters are feeling and thinking as well.