Nervous Conditions

she has no control since it is a mans society

- She is a product of a sin 

language

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

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

-like Nyasha she rebels against tradition

personally: poverty/lack of education

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

She is battling between two cultures

Jeremiah = not wealthy = one wife

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. 

-cigarettes

-england changed her

He dies of mumps or for an unknown reason

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. 

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?'

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.