Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it: I like to think Nyasha really believed that the confrontation had taken a conciliatory turn. She smiled that the number of her male acquaintances was the one thing that should put her father at ease. 'You know me,' she told him, but of course she was mistaken. 'You've taught me how I should behave. I don't worry about what people think so there's no need for you to.' She did not know her father either, because anyone who did would have retreated at that stage. 'Don't push me too far, Babamukuru pleaded. Mustering up his courage, Chido tried to help. 'They were only talking for a few minutes, Dad,' he said, and was ordered to be silent. 'You, Chido, keep quiet, Babamukuru snapped. 'You let your sister behave like a whore without saying anything. Keep quiet.' 'Babawa Chido,' began Maiguru, but was silenced immediately. Nyasha grew uncharacteristically calm at times like this. 'Now why,' she enquired of no particular person, 'should I worry about what people say when my own father calls me a whore?' She looked at him with murder in her eyes. 'Nyasha, be quiet,' Chido advised. 'Chido, I have told you to keep out of this,' reminded Babamukuru, gathering himself within himself so that his whole weight was behind the blow he dealt Nyasha's face. 'Never,' he hissed, ‘never,' he repeated, striking her other cheek with the back of his hand, 'speak to me like that.' Nyasha fell on to the bed, her minuscule skirt riding up her bottom. Babamukuru stood over her, distending his nostrils to take in enough air. 'Today I am going to teach you a lesson,' he told her. ‘How can you go about disgracing me? Me! Like that! No, you cannot do it. I am respected at this mission. I cannot have a daughter who behaves like a whore.' Nyasha was capable of pointing out that by her own definition that was exactly what he had, but she did not. 'Don't hit me, Daddy, she said backing away from him. ‘I wasn't doing anything wrong. Don't hit me.' 'Yuwi, yuwi, yuwi!' Maiguru moaned. 'Babawa Chido, do you want to kill me with your anger? She is only a child, Babawa Chido, a child.' 'You must learn to be obedient,' Babamukuru told Nyasha and struck her again. 'I told you not to hit me,' said Nyasha, punching him in the eye. Babamukuru bellowed and snorted that if Nyasha was going to behave like a man, then by his mother who was at rest in her grave he would fight her like one. They went down on to the floor, Babamukuru alternately punching Nyasha's head and banging it against the floor, screaming or trying to scream but only squeaking, because his throat had seized up with fury, that he would kill her with his bare hands; Nyasha, screaming and wriggling and doing what damage she could. Maiguru and Chido could not stay out of it any longer. They had to hold him. [from Chapter 6] Explore the ways in which Dangarembga makes this moment in the novel so shocking and surprising.