SECTION B: PROSE TSITSI DANGAREMBGA: Nervous Conditions Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: 'Maiguru,' my mother asked, suckling my little brother, 'do you think we will go home tonight?' 'How should I know what you and your Babamukuru have planned?' laughed Maiguru. ‘We shall see when he comes.' Babamukuru did not come until we had all gone to bed. He did not take my mother home that day, or the next, or the next. 'Mainini has been wondering when they will go home,' Maiguru probed on the fourth day. 'Oh yes! I said I would take them, remembered my uncle. At lunchtime the day after he came home looking very pleased with himself. Something very wonderful indeed must have happened for us to be able to see it, because Babamukuru's face did not usually reflect his moods. So we waited and hoped he would share the occasion with us. 'Have you packed, Mainini?' he asked my mother when we were half- way into the meal. 'I think I can take you home this afternoon.' 'But what about the shopping?' objected Maiguru. ‘Will there be time to do both?' 'We'll see to that later,' Babamukuru dismissed my aunt, and he told my mother to get ready since he wanted to leave straight after lunch. But when Lucia rose too, Babamukuru stopped her. 'Lucia,' he said indifferently, ‘er – if you are going to help Mainini, that is all right. But you yourself will not be going. I have found something for you to do. Not much. A little job. At the girls' hostel. You will help to cook the food there at the hostel. I will take you there today.' 'Purururu!' ululated Lucia loud and long, although I do not know how she managed it with such a broad grin on her face. ‘Purururu!' she shrilled, her hand to her mouth. 'Did you hear that, Sisi, did you hear that, Sisi?' she crowed at my mother with a little jump to emphasise each word. 'Babamukuru has found me a job. He has found me a job!' She knelt in front of Babamukuru, energetically clapping her hands. ‘Thank you, Samusha, thank you, Chihwa. You have done a great deed. Truly, we could not survive without you. Those foreign places, those places you went, did not make you forget us. No! They enabled you to come back and perform miracles!' My mother came hurrying with her own shrill ululations. ‘That is why they say education is life,' she cried. 'Aren't we all benefiting from Babamukuru's education?' and she knelt worshipping beside Lucia. Then it was Maiguru's turn to take her place on the floor. 'Thank you, Baba, thank you for finding Mainini Lucia a job.' It was an intoxicating occasion. My first instinct was to join the adoring women – my mouth had already pursed itself for a loud ululation. 'Don't you dare,' Nyasha hissed, kicking me under the table. I unpursed my mouth, but the urge to extol Babamukuru's magnanimity was implacable. 'Thank you, Babamukuru, I said as calmly as I could so as not to disappoint Nyasha, 'for finding Lucia a job.' I was mesmerised by the sleight of hand that had lifted Lucia out of her misery, and even more seductive was the power that this sleight of hand represented. With the crescendos of praise, Babamukuru grew modest and egalitarian. 'Stand up, stand up. Do not thank me. Lucia is the one who will be doing the work!' he exclaimed. So Lucia never went back to the homestead to live, although she did go with my mother that afternoon to collect her spare dress and her few other possessions. In the excitement, my mother left behind at the mission a lime-green bonnet and a bright pink bootee which she had received at my brother's birth. [from Chapter 8] How does Dangarembga vividly convey the reactions of the characters at this moment in the novel?