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Studio 07 Chapter 1 - The revelation Jade stared blankly out of the train window. The trees and the hills of the surrounding countryside blurred into one long, continuous strip of dappled green, too hypnotising to peel her eyes away from. The sun moved further and further away until it was a faint crescent behind the trees; a little semicircle of fire that created shapes and shadows that danced rapidly in the distance.  Jade felt a sudden wave of exhaustion come over her. Perhaps if I just close my eyes for a little, everything will be alright , she thought solemnly to herself. She felt the weight of her head, followed quickly by her entire body, sink deeper into the palm of her hand until S-P-L-A-T! She felt her hand smack the table. The white noise and the bright light of the train, sang herself to sleep. * If it wasn't for Mr Heath, sitting adjacent to her, shaking her abruptly by the shoulder, Jade would have been asleep for the next 2 hours! She felt her eyelids peel open sli...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  As you probably already know, if you've read the English essay that I published on here last week, I've been reading Purple Hibiscus by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie for my first half term of English at college. Since it was an amazing novel and one that I would highly recommend reading, I thought that it would be suitable to give you a review of it today! I hope you enjoy and if it sounds right up your alley, I hope you give it a read yourself!🙂💜 Purple Hibiscus is a story that is set in postcolonial Nigeria where there is a lot of political instability. This is really a metaphor for what the main protagonist, Kambili, experiences inside her violent family home. Kambili's father, Papa Eugene, has been overcome by colonial rule and has decided to leave his native Igbo culture behind for his strict version of Catholicism. Due to his temper and radical religious beliefs, Papa Eugene believes it to be right to punish his famil...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Just thought it would be nice to share the English essay I wrote recently about the novel of Purple Hibiscus; a book by Adichie that we read in English class. I will be posting a review on the novel next week since it was an amazing read but for now, I hope you enjoy reading this essay. There's a few things that I could improve on like making my thoughts a little bit more cohesive but I did enjoy writing this. Feel free to use this as inspiration or a nice read but please do not copy. This is my own work:) How does Adichie present the importance of culture in building identity?   Adichie shows that culture is important for the development  and formation  of a child’s identity . She  conveys  this  message  by highlighting Jaja’s  positive  change in character  when he is finally  given  the freedom  to explore the ways in which different people from different communiti...