Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nervous Conditions Quotes - Chapter One
- "I was not sorry when my brother
died"
- "my story is not after all about death, but about my escape"
- "where the women washed the river was shallow"
- "the women liked their spot"
- "this was the walk that my brother detested!"
- "Nhamo would lift our branch of the family out of the squalor in which we were living. Thus my uncle's gesture was oceanic"
- "Nhamo was forced once a year to return"
- "all this poverty began to offend him...to embarrass him"
- "he would drink sweet blak tea while he read his books and we went about our chores"
- "he had the power, the authority to make us do things for him"
- "I disliked our brother. I felt guilty about it"
- "Next time, I thought naively, Nhamo will catch it himself"
- "He was doing no more than behave, perhaps extremely, in the expected manner"
- "women in my family were not considered a priority"
- "In those days I felt the injustice of the situation
every time I thought about it"
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