When a person is colonised his/her native identity is compromised. It is dominated by language and education system in this situation. It is initiated by a large number of whites who live in the colonised area and rule over it. They start their own education system to impose a new way to life to force a new life, culture, language. The natives/Africans believe that this would make them civilised/more normal to fit in with the rest. Babamukuru first went to the mission school and was colonised. He moved forward in his studies and then moved to England where he came across Westernisation which his family adapted to and used while they lived in England. “Nyasha, who is afforded far more luxury and leisure than her cousin, questions many social
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Her nervous condition is revealed to Tambu in chapter 6 where she is studying for her Form 2 exams as an excuse not to eat. Tambu notices that she was "looking down and had lost most of her appetite, it showed all over her body in the way her bones crept to the surface, but she did not seem to notice. Tambu believes that over studying is the cause. In chapter 9 Nyasha’s disorder had morphed into Bulimia. Tambu returns to the mission house to find Nyasha throwing up dinner in the bathroom and confesses that it is something that occurs rather frequently. When Tambu moves to the convent school, she writes a letter to her revealing her anxiety about the social aspects of her life. The reason for her Bulimia is to discipline her body and occupy her mind. 3 months later when Tambu returns she sees that Nyashas disorder has morphed to such a severity that she was now "pathetic to see". “she had grown skeletal… Nyasha was losing weight steadily, constantly, rapidly. It dropped off her body almost hourly and what was left of her was grotesquely unhealthy.” (202-203) This evolution of her anorexic and bulimic tendencies show her steady decline in mental health. She exhibits an illness that is considered “western” because the necessity of excess in its manifestation. (ghosh,
Her nervous condition is revealed to Tambu in chapter 6 where she is studying for her Form 2 exams as an excuse not to eat. Tambu notices that she was "looking down and had lost most of her appetite, it showed all over her body in the way her bones crept to the surface, but she did not seem to notice. Tambu believes that over studying is the cause. In chapter 9 Nyasha’s disorder had morphed into Bulimia. Tambu returns to the mission house to find Nyasha throwing up dinner in the bathroom and confesses that it is something that occurs rather frequently. When Tambu moves to the convent school, she writes a letter to her revealing her anxiety about the social aspects of her life. The reason for her Bulimia is to discipline her body and occupy her mind. 3 months later when Tambu returns she sees that Nyashas disorder has morphed to such a severity that she was now "pathetic to see". “she had grown skeletal… Nyasha was losing weight steadily, constantly, rapidly. It dropped off her body almost hourly and what was left of her was grotesquely unhealthy.” (202-203) This evolution of her anorexic and bulimic tendencies show her steady decline in mental health. She exhibits an illness that is considered “western” because the necessity of excess in its manifestation. (ghosh,