Chapter eight was interesting. At first it was a kind of normal chapter, nothing exciting. But then when told that Nyasha, Maiguru, and babmukuru are leaving, tambu freaks out. The reason why this part stuck out ot me is that throughout the book tambu has shown disapproval and concern towards nyasha and now all of a sudden tambu is sad that nyasha is leaving. To make matters even more confusing, tambu states that she cannot live without nyasha.
I am starting to understand why the book is called nervous conditions. Even though the book hasnt staright forwardly stated that tambu has a nervous condition, it is obvious. Tambu goes from not being sorry about the death of her brother. Chapter eight has two good examples of her nervous condition. One being that tambu goes back and forth between her feelings. For example tambu at first hates nyasha, then she cant live without her. Another instance showing that tambu has a nervous coniditon, is on the day of her mother's wedding in which she doesnt want to attend. Normally if you dont want to go somewhere one would think about it and just show a bad attitude towards the event but tambu took matters to extreme by literally not being able to move on the day of the wedding causing her to not attend the wedding. This seems strange because normally as i said before, somebody would think about how they dont want to go, but tambu's body actually acted like it didnt want to go. The pieces are coming together!
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