Analysis Of ' Nervous Conditions '

In Santha Rama Rau’s story, “By Any Other Name,” she describes her experiences at the Anglo-Indian school to which she and her sister, Premila, are sent when Premila is eight and Santha is five and a half. Because the girls have been home schooled by their mother up to this point they find the transition to their new school strange and disconnecting. Santha’s sister, Premila, is initially willing to try and adapt to the culture and customs of her new environment; however, when a teacher is openly racist, Premila displays an impressive strength of character.

While Smith and Anzaldua may define identity through a culture or a voice, Jhumpa Lahiri, herself, had a different experience. Rather for Lahiri, she helps the reader

Childhood is the most sensitive period of human development. A well-structured academic enabling environment allows children to flourish, learning 15-20 new words every week all while adapting to and learning specific motor functions of all sorts. The correct environment carries an extremely important role and promotes learning under the proper circumstances, however a poor learning environment with constant conflict and poor role models can actually inhibit or slow the growth of a child. By no means does the perfect learning scenario exist, but psychologist can often identify a scenario where parents and/or guardians foster a variety of developmental issues from a psychological, physical, and mental perspective. The authoritative figure's unique and condescending style of teaching the girl in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, directly leads to harsh social and developmental consequences short term, with diminished long term social and developmental effects including troubled relationships, attachment issues, and a poor understanding of basic social scenarios.

“Child of Dandelions” by Shenaaz Nanji, should be incorporated in the IB curriculum, as it demonstrates how the I.B. trait caring, is significant in our daily lives. The I.B. trait caring is illustrated throughout this story, as the protagonist Sabine is compassionate towards others despite enduring a difficult time in her life. “Child of Dandelions” is based on real accounts of Ugandan events that occurred during the dictatorship of Idi Amin in 1972. Sabine is a Ugandan ,Indian; however, she is discriminated as she is forced to leave the country. Regardless of her current situation, Sabine still demonstrates caring through her care of her family, the lower class and her care for the safety of her loved ones.

The heat wave of the summer of 1952, Djinda wiped her hands against her dress. Her mother would kill her, it was dirty and the pink had faded. Her feet were bare and she hurried across the burning sand toward the small house her father had built. They’d both compromised each of their cultures; her father could do whatever he wanted that involved his culture but as long as he built her mother a house. This had been before she was born; her mother had also wanted to go to the hospital for her birth but had compromised to let the women of her husband’s tribe in there with her – much to the doctor’s protests.

Forming a new identity in a foreign country is not an easy task. Immigrants usually face challenges to identify themselves. Identity formation is the development of one’s distinctive personality due to particular reasons such as new environment, new culture and conflicts. During the process, some characters from Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake either create or deny the bond with their own culture; some undergo conflicts among generations. Those processes reflect significantly in Ashima and Gogol throughout the book. The degree of assimilations determines to what extent the characters have formed the new identity in the new culture.

her social development is made evident when she decides that she will not go out with boys

In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, Moushumi Mazoomdar is a Bengali-American woman who marries Nikhil Ganguli, a main character. Like Nikhil, she struggles with her cultural identity and the expectations that are associated with each of the cultures that “claim” her. Moushumi is a second generation Bengali-American who feels that her Bengali and American cultures are not reconcilable. Lahiri expresses this tension when first introducing Moushumi: Nikhil’s mother identifies her by discussing her broken engagement to an American man, and as a reaction to this failed relationship, she is set up with Nikhil, another Bengali-American (Lahiri 192). The Moushumi that Nikhil re-connects with, dates, and eventually marries has undergone a significant transformation in her appearance and personality. The Moushumi that Nikhil had encountered in his family’s Bengali social circles was an obedient daughter who took piano lessons, wore lace-collar shirts, and carried extra weight (Lahiri 214). However, through college and adult life, Moushumi forged a separate identity. She became exotic, confident, and daring, with “pleasingly feline features” that reflect the change (Lahiri 193). Moushumi’s need to break from her “the two countries that could claim her” led her to form a new identity characterized by her striving to achieve immersion in another culture, upper-class cosmopolitanism, and romantic success, but Lahiri portrays the rejection of her cultures as a contributor to Moushumi’s

Loss of cultural identity is a serious problem affecting mainly children, as they are more impressionable and have a stronger desire to conform. For example, in “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake, the speaker’s son “came home crying and said he wanted to have his hair cut” as a result of bullying from other kindergarteners in his class (Lake). At an early age, Wind-Wolf becomes ashamed of his

An English scholar further describes, “This arouses in Asha a deep longing to find out more about the country of her birth and bitterness against Somer for her indifference towards India and her inability to learn Marathi” (Hasan, 150). Asha does not try to conceal her bitter feelings against Somer at all, and continuously shows that she never tries to understand her mother's perspective. Her curiosity of her background sabotages her relationship with her mother. Clearly, she is too immature to understand that she should be grateful for all the love and care she receives from her mother, and not dwell on the few flaws her mother possesses. Her pessimistic attitude mirrors her immature and inconsiderate behaviour and proves that a change in attitude is significantly needed.

Within the human anatomy, an intricate and complex network of specialised nerve fibres and neurons works in collaboration with the central nervous system and peripheral system, designed to carry out the various actions humans perform every day. The nervous system is also known as the master control unit of the human body, as it operates other major functions such as the circulatory and respiratory systems (Jakab, 2006). It is composed of the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The neurons established within the various sections of the nervous system, is structured with three main parts: a dendrite which is a cluster of branches that operates by receiving information from the

"Nervous Conditions" is a semi-autobiographical story about Tambu, a young girl growing up in rural Rhodesia in the 1960's, and her search for a way out - for both herself and her family - of the tremendous poverty of homestead life in a colonized African country. Narrated through the eyes of young Tambu, the story is told with child-like simplicity about her and her family fighting to survive in a complex world of Imperialism, racism, and class and gender inequality. In hindsight, Dangarembga allows the protagonist's narrative to slowly unravel the meaning of her and her family's struggle with their assimilation into the strange and powerful culture of their rulers.

Nervous Conditions draws much focus on the lives of women living the impacts of colonialism in a traditional African society in Zimbabwe. These women struggle to assert themselves in a patriarchal society while at the same time it speaks about the history of a country that has been under colonialization. The female characters in the stories struggle in their lives to find ways to deal with their own situation; however, this essay emphasizes African women’s situation in both the colonized and/or patriarchal societies as exemplified by the female characters: Tambu and Nyasha. Tambu leaves her country because of its inequality and male biases so she can seek freedom and gain liberation. Nyasha resisters and defies patriarchy, as manifested by

The organs of our body are controlled by many systems in order to function correctly and efficiently in order to survive within the environment we live in. These include the heart, stomach and intestines and other vital organs and body systems. All of the systems in our body are regulated by a part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS is part of the peripheral nervous system and it controls many organs and muscles within the body. Rather bizarrely we are unable to determine or feel its presence in our bodies as it is working involuntary, as a reflexive manner. A common example of this involuntary action is best understood when

Nervous Conditions is concerned with women who live in a traditional African society in Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia), who struggle to find their place in the patriarchal system and who search for their independence. Each female protagonist in the novel finds her own way of dealing with her situation; however, this essay focuses on two characters-Tambu and Nyasha whose response to the male power is very different. While Tambu escapes from the environment of inequality in order to seek her liberation, Nyasha chooses to resist the patriarchy but her rebellion against her father ends up tragically as she suffers from the nervous conditions.