Nervous Conditions: Chapter 1-10 Main Points
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 1
- Describes Nhamo before he died.
- Lazy: He only works when Babamukuru says he's coming to visit.
- Jerk: He mocked Tambu and and treated his sisters like a servant.
- Thief: He stole Tambu's mealies to give them to other people so he could get a good reputation with those people.
- Describes homestead and surrounding places
- Beautiful: The trees, the river and the rest of the scenery to Tambu was beautiful.
- Describes Babamukuru
- Hard working: Jeramiah's conversation about Babamukuru with Tambu (p.5) doesn't directly say he's hard working, but it gives out the signal that he is hard working.
- Describes what Nhamo did at the homestead
- "Studied": He "studied" so he could get out of doing the work in the fields.
- Described what Tambu did at the homestead
- Chores: She worked in the fields, her moms garden, and took care of the livestock.
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 2, 1/2
- Tambu stoped school due to poverty.
- Tambu stoped going to school because they could only offord Nhanmo's school fee.
- Tambu starts growing food to sell.
- Cince Tambu wants to go to school so badly, she starts growing crops to sell to earn her school fees.
- Mr. Matimba helps Tambu sell her crops.
- He drives her to the city
- He got peoples atention for her in a nice way so she could sell her food.
- Tambu earned £10
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 2, 2/2
- Tambu's dad and Mr. Matimba argue about who gets the £10 Tambu earned.
- She gives the money to the headmaster of the school so he could take the money out of her acount when she starts school again.
- Jeramiah calls the hedmaster a thief for keeping her money, claming that the money is his, cince Tambu is her doughter.
- Mr. Matimba comes and settels the mater as the money is Tambu's
- Nhamo and his dad plan to pick up Babamukuru.
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 3, 1/2
- Babamukuru returns
- All of Babamukuru's family greets him at the homestead.
- Babamukuru has a family meeting.
- Babamukuru talks about educating one of the kids in each of his brothers families.
- Nhamo is chosen to be educated in Jeramiahs family and is chosen to be educated at the mission.
- Nhamo gloats that he was chosen to go to the mission.
- Nhamo gloats to Tambu that:
- He is going to the mission
- He is going to not be "the son of Jeramiah".
- He is going to have new clothes
- He is going to eat with a knife and fork.
- Nhamo gloats to Tambu that:
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 3, 2/2
- Nhamo left to go to the mission.
- Nhamo dies and Tambu takes his place.
- Babamukuru comes to the homestead and tels Tambu's parents the bad news.
- Tambu was chosen to take Nhamo's place at the mission.
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 4, 1/2
- Tambu for the mission
- Tambu expects to find a new self
- Clean
- Well looked after
- Well dressed
- Tambu expects to find a new self
- Tambu gets to the mission
- Tambu finds that she is a pesant compared to the others at the mission
- Dirty
- Poorly taken cared of
- Poorly dressed
- Tambu finds that she is a pesant compared to the others at the mission
- Tambu describes Babamukuru's house
- "Pallace"
- "Mansion"
- "Castle"
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 4, 2/2
- Tambu eneres the house
- Attacked by two visiouse dogs
- Greetedy Nyasha and Anna
- Has tea with Maiguru
- Is shown where she will sleep
- Maiguru tels Nyasha not to read the book she was reading
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 5
- Babamukuru confiscates Nyasha's book while she is making gravy for dinner
- Niasha argues that the book she was reading was fine
- Nyasha leaves the dinner table without finishing her food
- Nyasha and Tambu go outside
- Nyasha is smoking at the time
- Tambu discoveres Maiguru has digrees
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 6
- Tambu, Nyasha, and Chido go to the Christmas dance
- They get back late
- Nyasha and Babamukuru have a fight
- Nyasha talks cheekily to Babamukuru
- Babamukuru calls Nyasha a whore
- Babamukuru hits Nyasha TWICE
- Nyasha hits Babamukuru
- They both start phisically fighting
- Babamukuru threatens to kill Nyasha
- Maiguru and Chido hold Babamukuru back to stop him from killing Nyasha
- Nyasha leaves the room
- Tambu notices that being a female at the mission is the same as being female on the homestead by treatment
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 7
- Babamukuru's family and Tambu head to the homestead for Christmas
- Babamukuru finds that Takesure and Lucia haven't left the homestead like he told them to
- Babamukuru holds a meeting with the other fathers and husbands at the homestead
- Maiguru and Tambu's mom argue
- Lucia stands up for herself in the meeting
- Babamukuru proposes the idea for givinga a wedding for Tabu's parents
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 8, 1/2
- Tambu takes Babamukuru's plan for the wedding as an embarrassment
- She thinks it's a stupid idea.
- She doesn't want to take part of it.
- Tambu is left back at the homestead with her family to work in the fields.
- Takesure and Lucia are still living at the homestead
- Lucia and Tambu are the ones that are really working, while Jeramiah and Takesure are being their lazy selves.
- Tambu returns to the mission
- Tambu's mom has a baby boy at the mission
- Relatives from the homestead go to the mission to congratulate Babamukuru and Tambu's mom
- Lucia stays at the mission with Tambu's mom
- Babamukuru finds Lucia a job at the mission
- Tambu's mom goes back to the homestead
- Everybody start making wedding preperations
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 8, 2/2
- Tambu returns to the mission
- Tambu escapes and doesn't go to help at with the wedding preparations
- Tambu spent the day at a friend's house
- Tambu gets back to Babamukuru's house late at night
- Babamukuru is still in his office
- The man eating dogs weren't let lose
- Tambu sneaks int her room through a window
- Maiguru sees her sneaking in and warns Tambu that Babamukuru is angry
- Next morning tambu decides not to get out of bed, because that's the day of the wedding
- Babamukuru threatens to take Tambu out of school if she doesn't go to the wedding
- Tambu stays at the mission and doesn't go to the wedding
- Tambu regrets not going to the wedding
- looked like fun
- Tambo gets lashed 15 times and takes Anna's job for two weeks
- Maiguru leaves the mission
- Goes to her brothers house
- Babamukuru brings Maiguru back to the mission
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 9, 1/2
- Three nuns visit the mission to bring 2 girls to their school (Sacred Heart)
- The nuns tested the girls at the mission
- Nyasha tels Tambu not to go to Sacred Heart
- Babamukuru says it's not worth the money to send Tambu to Sacred Heart
- Maiguru says it's a good idea to send Tambu to Sacred Heart
- Babamukuru sends Tambu to the homestead
- Babamukuru talks with Jeramiah about Tambu's future
- Babamukuru decides to let Tambu go to Sacred Heart
- Ma'Shingayi doesn't like Babamukuru's decision
- Warns Tambu about "the Englishness"
- Ma'Shingayi becomes lazy
- She won't move or eat or clean herself
- Lucia helps Ma'Shingayi by:
- Bringing her to the river and setting Ma'Shingayi's baby in the middle of the river on a rock so she would go in the water to get the baby
- Cooking her food
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 9, 2/2
- Tambu goes back to the mission before going to Sacred Heart
- Tambu's friends tell her not to forget them
- Tambu walks back to the house with Nyasha
- Babamukuru's mad at Nyasha because she came late
- Babamukuru forces Nyasha to finish what´s on her plate
- Nyahsa doesn´t want to eat at all
- Nyasha eats anyway
- Tambu goes up stairs to get ready for bed
- She heares Nyasha gaging up her food in the bathroom
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 10, 1/3
- Tambu explains how she feels when getting ready to go to Sacred Heart
- She feels:
- Excitement
- Anticipation
- Elation
- Exultation
- She feels:
- Babamukuru, Maiguru, Nyasha, and Tambu drive to Sacred Heart
- Tambu describes the place. It has
- four hockey courts
- a basketball court
- a netball court
- a pond with goldfish
- two main buildings
- the school
- the dormitory
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 10, 2/3
- Tambu sees the croud of students
- She doesn't see any black students
- Only black people she sees are people carrying trunks for the students
- The nun that greets everybody and shows where the first formers and "Africans" wold live
- In the rooms where the "normal" students would live there were four beds
- In the room where the "africans" would live, there were six beds
- The nun explanes that "we have more africans here than normal this year"
- Nyasha says goodbuy and referes to tambu as an "african"
- Tambu starts school at Sacred Heart
- She gets some letters from Nyasha talking about the stuf that she's missing
- She get's a seriouse letter from Nyasha explaining how she misses her and how life is without her
- She get's another letter that was normal and saying that when she came back to the mission she would find a more disiplined Nyasha
- Tambu go's back to the mission
- Tambu sees that Nyasha was a lot thinner and could see her bones
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Nervous Conditions main points on chapter 10, 3/3
- Tambu goes back to the homestead
- Tambu goes back to Sacered Heart without passing through the mission
- Three months pass
- Tambu goes back to the mission
- "Nyasha grew skeletal"
- Nyasha wakes Tambu up late at night toa ask her about a question when studying
- Nyasha wouldn't come to the dinner table
- Nyasha goes crazy
- Babamukuru and Maiguru take Nyasha to a psychiatrist
- The psychiatrist says nothing's wrong with Nyasha
- The second psychiatrist said that Nyasha needed to rest
- Nyahsa was put into a clinic for a fiew weeks
- Tambu is taken back to the homestead and explanes what happened to Nyahsa
- Ma'Shingayi blames "the Englishness" is what caused Nyasha to go crazy and warns Tambu to be carefull about it too
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