Rachael ༊·˚’s Reviews > Purple Hibiscus > Status Update

can't believe i kept overlooking everything blood-related (from mama's miscarriage to kambili being unable to concentrate on her studies to her breaking the eucharistic fast because she needed to eat before taking a panadol).

definitely remembered the mini debate i had with my teacher during a consult over papa's timetabling and need to control and have order in everything, and googling mmuo for the first time.

feels fitting to touch this book for the first time since i studied it for lit (which is actually 4 years ago? i truly can't believe it) on a palm sunday.

...so yes, here i am, re-reading this. definitely more than my third time seeing this pink cover and getting nightmares over it, but it's the second time i will be reading it cover-to-cover without a teacher breathing down my neck on how to feel about it.

- look anywhere else besides here if you don't want the spoiler -



i am still so mad about the boiling water >:|

"The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?"