This week in English class we started reading Nervous Conditions. In chapter one for the most part, SiSi talks about her brother Nhamo. She uses indirect characterization to show us Nhamo's personality. She describes Nhamo's actions which lead us to infer other things.
I'm going to share a couple quotes to show how SiSi uses indirect characterization to make infererences about Nhamo. “He would leave something, a few books, a plastic bag, anything as long as there was something, at the shops at the bus terminus, for he was on friendly terms with everybody, so that he could send Netsai to fetch them as soon as he arrived home.” You can infer that Nahmo thinks he is better than everyone else, and bosses everyone around to make sure they know that he had the power. “Helping in the fields or with the livestock or the firewood, any of the tasks he used to do willingly before he went to the mission, became a bad joke.” You can infer that Nahmo thinks that since he goes to school and is smart that he is too good to do laboring things. This also shows that Nahmo is stuck up and only cares about himself. I feel like people in the real world also work like this. Once you become smarter than the people around you, you act like you are better than everyone else.
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