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Nervous Conditions

My feelings about how good and bad Nervous Conditions was are in the middle.  I am happy to get it over with.  Mainly because I didn’t really like reading the beginning.  I got confused so many times and reread it about 5 times.  When it got to the end, my interest level began to pick up, and I realized why so many people said that it was such a tremendous book.  The author did an amazing job writing this book.  She exposed all of the characters conditions in hidden parts of the story.  And these conditions actually linked back to the title of the book.  These conditions fit the characters really well, and I enjoyed reading about their different situations.  To read this book, you had to be focused at all times because you never know when something that could be anywhere in a paragraph could lead to a huge rise in the climax of the story.  Their also was a lot of conflict in the story.  So you had to pay attention to the way certain character’s mood were, their voice, and patterns in their words.  I felt that the characters problems made it more interesting even though it showed ways that they couldn’t survive without each other.

This story also was good because of the way it portrayed it as a tragedy in the way women are treated in society.  I mean women shouldn’t be treated that way but this tory exposes how cultures once felt this way.   They felt that the man of the family was always in charge and the women took the backseat.  Males were going to go to school while the women were going to help pick for food.  It is a very diffivult time period for Nyasha, and by the way that she overcame these limitations.  It made her that much stronger