Nervous Conditions 4

This week we read chapters 8, 9, and 10.  In chapters 9 and 10 Nyasha's anorexia and bullemia just goes down hill and gets worse.  Tambu leaves her to go to Sacred Heart (which is a boarding school, so she is away from Nyasha).  This causes Nyasha's condition to get worse since she has no one to tell her problems to or help her with her problems.  I think she starts to be bullemic because that is her way of dealing with the issues she has.  No one notices her condition except Tambu.  But Tambu didn't know it was this bad because she was away at Sacred Heart.  When she came home to the mission to visit, she was terrified at how much thinner nyasha was.  Tambu says she had even grown skeletal.  She also said her arms were, "so frail they looked as though they would snap if she so much as picked up a pen."  She also would stay up all night studying even though it was her vactation.

Nyasha seems sort of psychotic when before and during her scene.  She asks to get in bed with Tambu, but when tambu rolled over she says she just wanted to see if she would let her.  I'm kind of confused by why she did this.  Then she sits on the bed and starts talking very broadly using the words they and it to where the reader doesn't exactly know who or what she is talking about.  You have to look very closely to see, and I think she is talking about the English because she is talking about how they took them away and how they changed them.  Then she talks about how she is evil and won't die which is pretty scary when I imagine it in my head.  The Tambu says, "she crouched like a cat and was ready to spring."  That is when I knew something bad was goig to happen.  She has her scene and tear things up and rips things, but then she starts to get quiet.  She tells Babamukuru, "I don't hate you daddy.  They want me to, but I won't."  This sounds like a scary movie when the child is saying he or they when talking about a ghost or the devil.  I think that that is how we know that the english are bad and brain washing.  I still don't see why the english would want Nyasha to hate Babamukuru though.  If anyone knows the answer, please comment.