Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an emotional, powerful, and riveting novel. Adichie includes many tactics in her work that contribute to these three adjectives. The novel is emotional because it is told exclusively from the perspective of the main character, fifteen-year-old Kambili. Kambili describes her life in an almost journal-like fashion. The reader is able to experience every single part of Kambili's life, including the good and the bad. Kambili uses many sensory details in her descriptions, which can be very entertaining, but also sorrowful in more serious scenes, like the abuse she faces. Adichie does an amazing job of conveying to the reader that Kambili is a timid, scared, yet friendly girl completely through her actions and words. The novel is powerful in the fact that it covers so many deep issues. The characters, Kambili, Jaja, and Mama face extreme abuse by Papa, which can be a hard topic to discuss in a novel. Adichie makes this and other topics re