Nervous Conditions: JDU Lessons

Question 1

Exam tips: Criteria

Answer 1

Structure: Point, Evidence, Explain and Analyze (PEEA)
Criteria: Insight, sensitivity, individuality and flair (ISIF)

Question 2

Exam tips: What to avoid

Answer 2

1) Narrating the plot
2) Overly long quotes
3) Generalised points
4) Don’t get bogged down in plot details

Question 3

Exam tips: What to remember

Answer 3

1) Engage with colonialism, feminism and class
2) Short precise quotes
3) Use other parts of the novel
4) Give opinion on authors message

Question 4

Key passages

Answer 4

1: Author identity
69: Class envy
117-119: Everything but centered around Nyasha

Question 5

Race

Answer 5

1) Nyasha disliked by classmates because she thinks she is white…disliked by whites because she is as wealthy as them = whites dislike the apparent equality
2) pg: 206 “psychiatrist said that Nyasha could not be ill, that Africans did not suffer in the way we had described”
pg 208: “there were no black psychiatrists”

Question 6

Education

Answer 6

Hierarchy: Educated white, Educated black, White man, White Woman, Black man, Black woman
is a form of escape
strong foundation to build family on