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THE inherent homo characteristics in Fatima prevent her from spitting at Takundwa'due south dead body and she feels sorry for the pitifully wasted life. Her life is on edge and she contemplates committing suicide past taking an overdose of malaria pills. In that location are 20-four tablets in the bottle.

Fatima believes in divine power which makes her hesitate to take the pills simply like that. Her phonation whispers that life must exist the well-nigh precious gift from God, as her manus hesitantly touches the common cold bottle of pills again. Sofia'south trial is the ane and only meaningful event that is now left in her life. She is determined that its outcome will seal her fate. If Sofia is sentenced to expiry at that place will be zippo left to live for. One sympathises with her over this because she would have lost all her children in baroque circumstances.

However, not all hope is lost for her as she resorts to divine intervention every bit she decides to kneel down and pray for her daughter. Again this demonstrates the side where the tenderness of maternity lies. Fatima was built-in into a large family. She does not even take the exact figure as she thinks they were 26, 27 or 28. That they were a large family is supported by the fact that their father did not know the names of his children.

Fatima is from a poor background. She says she vividly remembers that there were then many half-naked toddlers all crammed into iii round huts, each belonging to a different wife. Her male parent, Mr Marume, was one of the nearly feared n'angas throughout Nharira. Important looking people with cute cars would drive from far and wide to come and consult her father. It was said most of those large people came to buy lucky charms so that they could go richer.

The irony of the whole matter is that Marume himself lived in apple-polishing poverty such that Fatima says she was never able to sympathise why her father could not use the same charms that he sold to others to make himself rich. I have already discussed the abuse of women shown in this text and it is through Fatima that we hear a lot of it. For the do good of those who missed the earlier instalments hither are some examples. She says the showtime affair she and other girls were taught was the fine art of good womanhood. The virtues of expert motherhood were conspicuously spelt out from the word go.

Of all these virtues, obedience and submission to anyone who was male person was the about emphasised. Good girls had to cook for, wash for and serve properly and promptly, every male being that hung effectually them. The question of age did not matter. That fashion, girls would abound to go fully clean-cut productive, reproductive and responsible wives worth paying lobola for. Such a daughter would not put her people to shame if she became fortunate plenty to get married.

Marriage and begetting of children seemed therefore, to be the simply purpose of womanhood. The worst thing that could happen to a woman was to go nigh without a proper husband. That woman was looked at equally an incomplete person and a major threat to other properly married women who would ever look at her liberty with grave suspicion. She therefore, was a shame to her parents and relatives and a very big shame to her ancestors.

Diviners would then exist sought to provide spiritual answers as to why the shameful girl had failed to secure herself a husband but like every other normal woman of her age had already done. After getting married, the adult female would so face the important chore of bearing a male child first, for the sake of her husband'south name. Today's women would observe information technology hard to eat this. All what is done seems to favour men. Girls are tied to civilization or custom and have no room to limited themselves. Giving birth is God-given, what if a woman gives nascence to girls only? Her futurity is doomed and she would be a subject of ridicule.

Proficient girls should always be on their knees in respect whenever they are serving their brothers no affair the age. Good girls should not wait into the eyes of whoever they are speaking to, especially if it is a human being. That kind of boldness would lead to witchcraft. Skillful girls just speak when spoken to. This was the teaching given to Fatima and other girls at the fourth dimension. It is articulate that girls lived stringent lives bound past tradition.

Tradition is intolerant to deviants. Fatima tells us that she felt the biting sensation of her mother's stick cutting across her back. This was in response to Fatima's wayward behaviour. She was caught red handed placing a plate of sadza before her brothers without genuflecting as custom called upon her to do. She had stood in front end of her father without kneeling. He described it as continuing like a mucilage tree. Traditionally children belong to the female parent.

Marume, Fatima'south mother tells his wife that her daughter acts as if she has been picked from a hill where proper manners take never been practised. He goes on to button the blame to his wife proverb, "That is why your children grow up to go prostitutes. I tin can bet this one volition become yet another prostitute just like her elder sis!" When children misbehave all the arraign is pushed to their mothers. Children get theirs only as men continue a distance and pass the buck to the women. Is this not a class of abuse?

Remember nosotros are still following Fatima. She is on the brink and all hope is almost gone. Only ane affair notwithstanding remains, this little bottle of pills she is belongings in her palms. Looking at the black dresses in her wardrobe she is debating within herself as to which one will they wrap her in when the fourth dimension comes. If they hang her Sofia, then, she too shall die. All is bleak for Fatima. Her husband Joseph Takundwa, the cause of all her misery is dead.

Fatima is lonely now. She says at that place is no one to talk to here. Nothing to lean on. Only death and broken things, dead bricks, dead wood, broken window panes., broken dreams, dreams sugariness and bitter.

"I besides laughed, once." True to Fatima's word all promise is lost. Dreams have been shattered. All is lifeless. Simply the story of Fatima continues as she gives us all the basic information on The Sun Volition Rise Again.

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