While I was reading Notebook of a Return to a Native Land, I found pages 7-8 very difficult to understand. It was hard to keep track of what was going on. For instance, page 7 begins by mentioning the months as they pass by, but after November it starts talking thoroughly about Christmas, a holiday instead of mentioning the month of December. This disruption in the sentence structure forced me to reread it and make sure that I didn’t miss anything. I also found the ending of page 7 and the beginning of page 8 very difficult to understand because it was a very long and continuous sentence. I had trouble identifying what the sentence was about. For example, the sentence begins by talking about Christmas Day and then suddenly it starts talking about a Church. According to the text, “It had agoraphobia, Christmas did. What it wanted was a whole day of bustling, preparing, a cooking and cleaning spree, endless jitters, about-not-having-enough, about-running-short, about-getting-bored, then at evening an unimposing little church, which would benevolently make room for laughter, the whispers, the secrets, the love talk, the gossip…” (7). It was hard to figure out whether the sentence was focusing on the Church or on the events that occurred during the day. Overall, in order to comprehend the passage, I had to reread it over and over again so that I could make sense of what I was reading. I also had to search up the definitions of some of the words to better understand the passage.