Reading Strategies

I find the book Purple Hibiscus to be a very immersive story in comparison to the books.  A way for me to better understand what I'm reading is to go ahead and simply read the whole chapter.  Afterwards, I go back and annotate what I noticed on my first walkthrough and antything that gave me pause.  Following my annotations I try and verbaly summarize what I read that happened in that chapter to try and solidify what I know.  Through this method I can somewhat better comprehend what I've read.

The challenges that bother me the most come from the perspective the book is written.  Because its from the point of view from a fifteen year old girl who doesn't immmediatly see the big picture.  She still loves her father despite his abusive tendencies.  Amongst other things the reader is only aware of what Kambili's aware of which greatly narrows the range of knowledge.  The way I address this is by simply continuing to read until she gets the full picture.