Song of Soloman

Morrison gives many small details here and there about the characters, slowly building them up throughout the book. It was hard for me to keep track of everyone's backstory and factoids that made them who they were. Personally I would get confused about the characters, thinking something happened to them when really it happened to a whole other character. The insights she'd give us into the character lives were made much harder to comprehend when they went straight into a flashback without a page break or anything. Overall, I'd get very confused about who was who, what happened to who, when it was taking place.

In order to help myself with that, I tried to participate more in discussions so I could understand what was going on more. I asked all the questions I was confused about to Mr. Lawler directly in class or to a friend after class. As a not very attentive reader, it helped me to circle their age, where they were. If I noticed them reminiscing, I would mark that too. Annotating all the little details helped me keep track of each character and if it was real time or a flashback. It helped me to go back a few pages whenever I was lost and look for little things I could mark in order to clear the confusion.