Reading Adichie's second book Half of the Yellow Sun, I found her style of figurative such as imagery and simile. I found it easy to read now that I know the similarities of Purple Hibiscus and Half of the Yellow Sun. In my opinion, she has a unique way of describing the setting and expressing the imagery to the readers. Reading her descriptions, it is easy to see the setting and plot happening in it. Her book is also constructed in small, short, easy sentences making her books easy. I usually have hard time getting into a book but her books are easy to start and hard to stop.
Half of the Yellow Sun takes place in Nsukka, where Aunt Ifeoma lived in Purple Hibiscus, but in the sixties. Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in African History in Nsukka, a struggle of Biafra to gain independence. As from the first book, her characters are blind at first but later gain conscience and come to epiphany. Characters of Adichie are always going through a development and she leads them to understanding through the book.
The difference I found from Purple Hibiscus and Half of the Yellow Sun is that in the first book, it is written in first person point-of-view from a female character, Kambili. However, the second book is now third person point-of-view from a male character, Biafra. Through this difference, the book might have different opinions and solution to hardships that those two characters face because characteristic of women is observant, attentive, and cautious while characteristics of men is different from women.
The similarity in the two characters is that they are both young, teenagers. Kambili is a fifteen-year-old female character and Biafra is a thirteen-year-old houseboy character. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, once had an interview on public radio and explained the reason behind choosing a young narrator: “I think a younger narrator made me more careful not to overburden my fiction with polemics, or with my own politics. It is also more believable to see the complexities and absurdities of religion through the eyes of a younger person who is not cynical or jaded.”
Half of the Yellow Sun takes place in Nsukka, where Aunt Ifeoma lived in Purple Hibiscus, but in the sixties. Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in African History in Nsukka, a struggle of Biafra to gain independence. As from the first book, her characters are blind at first but later gain conscience and come to epiphany. Characters of Adichie are always going through a development and she leads them to understanding through the book.
The difference I found from Purple Hibiscus and Half of the Yellow Sun is that in the first book, it is written in first person point-of-view from a female character, Kambili. However, the second book is now third person point-of-view from a male character, Biafra. Through this difference, the book might have different opinions and solution to hardships that those two characters face because characteristic of women is observant, attentive, and cautious while characteristics of men is different from women.
The similarity in the two characters is that they are both young, teenagers. Kambili is a fifteen-year-old female character and Biafra is a thirteen-year-old houseboy character. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, once had an interview on public radio and explained the reason behind choosing a young narrator: “I think a younger narrator made me more careful not to overburden my fiction with polemics, or with my own politics. It is also more believable to see the complexities and absurdities of religion through the eyes of a younger person who is not cynical or jaded.”