But I did not sneer at you,’ I protested, speaking in Shona. Our conversation was laboured and clumsy because when Nyasha spoke seriously her thoughts came in English, whereas with me, the little English I had disappeared when I dropped my vigilance to speak of things that mattered.
This slightly highlights the main idea of the book, telling us in a way that girls were less educated in the society than men were.
What are you doing, Nyasha?’ Babamukuru asked, withoutlooking at her, so that one wondered how he had noticed. ‘I thought you had finished with the rice,’ Nyasha replied, ladling meat and gravy on to her rice. ‘What about your mother, here?’ Babamukuru asked conver- sationally. ‘Do you think she doesn’t know what she’s doing, waiting on me like this?’ ‘I don’t like cold food,’ Nyasha pointed out, as willing as her father to engage in dialogue.
This shows us that the women in their household didn't have the freedom to even eat food whenever they wanted to.