Nervous Conditions; Chapter 1

          This week my English class started reading about this new book called, "Nervous Conditions."  I wasn't that excited to hear that we were reading about it, and the cover didn't give me that spark to alter my interest level.  Although like my mother always tells me, "Don't judge a book by it's cover".  Usually this deals with a person's personality but I'm relating it to what first pops in your head.  Well Nervous Conditions is about this young girl named, Tambu.  Tambu goes through many struggles in life with her family’s setting and her heritage.  
           While reading chapter one of Nervous Conditions, I gathered a lot of information.  I noticed that Tambu isn’t showing much sorrow for her brother death.  She kind of brushes the whole incident off.  She is mainly mad at the way her brother, Nahmo was acting once he came home for a visit.  Nahmo turns away from his family with the attitude as though he is better than them.  He does some cruel things as well.  For example, he acts pushy by thrashing the girls and forcing them to carry his baggage once he arrives.  This isn’t something I would be proud of if I was Nahmo, and I would never do that to any of my younger sisters.  I am disappointed in the way that he was acting. At first I figured that since the boys went to school that they would have a good type of perspective on life and family.  But as you can tell, Nahmo as gained a obnoxious role with being to forceful.  I think that Tambu has every right to be mad because Nahmo became a cruel individual. Also I wonder if Tambu will like or dislike going to school, and her situation with her family.