Nervous Conditions a novel about the ongoing journey about Tambu, a girl, fighting for the right to go to school and receive an education. Throughout the novel, there are many conflicts that make achieving her goal a difficult process. For being a woman, her family being poor and being an African. The novel is not just about Tambu’s struggles, but about other people in her family such as her aunts and cousin. The novel Nervous Conditions carries out the theme of discrimination between class, family and gender.
In the novel, there is a clear diction between the two worlds of poor and rich and a number of instants where class discrimination is a major conflict. Between the families the issue of class is largely known. Tambu’s family has the least …show more content…
The fact Nyasha is not obedient woman or child and stands up to her father and it causes her father to be anger. For her brother, Chido, knows to be silent and not talk back, as does her mother. However Nyasha is young girl with courage. Creating anger and the discrimination with in a household. Babamukuru wants his daughter to be obedient as any child or woman should be to man or father (117). It is not the only time Nyasha stands up to her father and causes an uproar of action. Woman throughout the novel have little to know voice, they are taught to clean, cook and serve their husbands. A women’s thoughts do not matter in their eyes and it is major conflict and one of the few things that makes it difficult for Tambu and Nyasha to be respected, educated young woman. Nervous Conditions is a powering novel that show the hardship of African at the time it is written in. It shows the courage of a young girl who wants an education despite the lack of support from her father and brother, and the lack of money. The courage that another girl has to stand up to her father, even though woman are taught to be obedient towards the men. It shows the class difference between one large family. Overall the story caries out the themes of gender discrimination between man and woman, class discrepancy and discrimination with in the
In the novel, there is a clear diction between the two worlds of poor and rich and a number of instants where class discrimination is a major conflict. Between the families the issue of class is largely known. Tambu’s family has the least …show more content…
The fact Nyasha is not obedient woman or child and stands up to her father and it causes her father to be anger. For her brother, Chido, knows to be silent and not talk back, as does her mother. However Nyasha is young girl with courage. Creating anger and the discrimination with in a household. Babamukuru wants his daughter to be obedient as any child or woman should be to man or father (117). It is not the only time Nyasha stands up to her father and causes an uproar of action. Woman throughout the novel have little to know voice, they are taught to clean, cook and serve their husbands. A women’s thoughts do not matter in their eyes and it is major conflict and one of the few things that makes it difficult for Tambu and Nyasha to be respected, educated young woman. Nervous Conditions is a powering novel that show the hardship of African at the time it is written in. It shows the courage of a young girl who wants an education despite the lack of support from her father and brother, and the lack of money. The courage that another girl has to stand up to her father, even though woman are taught to be obedient towards the men. It shows the class difference between one large family. Overall the story caries out the themes of gender discrimination between man and woman, class discrepancy and discrimination with in the