I believe the purpose of Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was to unveil mass societal and interpersonal dilemmas. The author shows the growth and movement of characters and plot through a sustained amount of drama, tension, conflict, and other forms of resolution. For Kambili, the novel shows the reader her journey to adulthood and, in turn, how she finds herself and her voice. The author also shows great oppression, from inside Kambili's family to the outside world around her. By showing the reader the struggles that her family and her father endured dealing with their father/husband, the author also shows the collisions between cultures: the rich and the poor, the different forms of spirituality and religion, and even the 'education. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in my opinion, managed to achieve all of this very well and also understood. When I first started creating, I struggled with owning and maintaining a strong, meaningful purpose. In Shattering Temptations, this was even more painfully true. However, I was able to repair it after the piece was worked on in class. In the end, I was able to find its purpose; to show the struggles that existed in the mind of someone who was unstable and mentally abusive towards themselves to the point of suicide and other acts of physical self-harm. I feel like I showed that very successfully. Adichie has the efficiency of using all techniques such as tone, word selection and sentence structure to establish the style and even make it grow on the readers. For me, the style used was one of the things that stood out to me. I am now more aware of these things and actively seek them out in my writing. These elements that Adichie uses and also contribute......middle of paper......effectively in my stories. I feel like I could do better using the tool to make my stories even better and go even further. I found the events that unfolded to be a challenge. It wasn't that I didn't understand, but that the content was difficult to swallow. Before reading this novel, I had never thought about this type of oppression in any context other than what was presented to me in the news. Of course, I knew about this kind of abuse in simple history books and in the news, but it had no “life”. This book brought “life” to an abusive and oppressive situation. It became very personal to me as a reader as I read it. This book had a strong impact on me, and allowed me to rethink and rethink parts of our world's history and try to imagine the unimaginable. Works Cited Adichie, CN (2003). Purple hibiscus. New York: Workman Editions.