Nervous Conditions

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The Wedding

Reduces their poverty and lack of social issues = joke

Tambu becomes very offended by Nyasha who calls her mother cute

Ma' Shangai has no choice but to marry Jeremiah

she has no control since it is a mans society

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Tambu

Since she was born out of wedlock Babamukuru looks at Tambu as sin

- She is a product of a sin 

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Colonizers

claim everything is bad because they want the ruches and benefits of africa

education

religion

cultural traditoins

language

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Babamukuru

His conflicts are

his reputation

responsibilities

Nyasha

He wants his wife and daughter to be educated for his own reputation

He needs them to stay in line for his own reputation

Everything is surrounds his reputation because if it becomes tainted he could lose his job and be sent back to the homestead. 

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Nyasha

Nyasha is the only one not pleased for Lucia when she gets a job because she noticies the ***** Institutionalized Gender Disparity*****

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Lucia

conflict:

-poor and uneducated but she is life smart

-like Nyasha she rebels against tradition

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Ma'Shangai

Conflict:

-wants succes for her children but not the lack of identity that comes with it

personally: poverty/lack of education

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Maiguru

Conflict

- she has been to college ans earned her degree but she is stuck as the mother and wife

-she could do so much more than clean dishes and cook

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Nyasha

Conflict

- educated in Uk and use to the english culture

- she is from zimbabwe culture

She is battling between two cultures

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SETTING

Homestead- There is a middle hut/house that contains the husband, the first wife and their children. Then there are other houses/huts that surround the husbands house that contain his other wives and children.

The wealthier = the more wives

Jeremiah = not wealthy = one wife

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IRONY

Pg. 155 - When Babamukuru is yelling at Nyasha for dressing and acting scandalous, he slaps her. The slap is to punish her for her skirt but it actually causes her skirt to rife up higher over her thigh. 

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Nyasha

-loose

-rebellious

-flirtatious

-careless

-cigarettes

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Whta is the biggest difference between Nyasha from when she visited the family fromwhen she visited her house?

- she is stoic at the familys humble home and unconfortable

-she is not rude just unsicial and awkward

- she hurts Tambus feelings because hs eis not the girl Tambu use to have fun with

-england changed her

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Nhamo needs a good slap around

He is :

very arrogant and rude

selfish 

pigheaded

sexist

a putdown

He dies and Tambu doesnt mourn his death

He dies of mumps or for an unknown reason

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Irony

An example of irony is how the brother and cousins go to the mission school to gain a better education but they come back with a loss of knowledge. for example they all come back not knowing how to speak Shona fluently. It is ironic because school is a place where you are suppose to expand you minds knowledge boundaries not make them smaller. 

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Imagery

On page 88 Tambu describes her newfound relationship between her and her uncle as a big bridge less crevice with jagged rocks at the bottom. After she realized her uncle was a lot wealthier than she thought Tambu felt more distant towards he uncle and also felt like she didn't know him. Almost saying "what else don't i know about you?'

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Theme- Family Life/Hierarchy

In pages 48 -72 many relatives come to Tambu and her familys house. Tambu's job is to hold a bowl of water for relatives to wash their hands and feet. The catch is she must go in descending order of powerful relatives. (meaning: she must go for most powerful man first and keep going down the line). I don't understand how she is suppose to know and learn everyone and their rank. She makes the mistake of going to Babamukuru first because he is their life support and a huge source of their income so for Tambu Babamukuru is the most important.