ENG120 - Boesman and Lena - Nervous Conditions - English Essay Writing Assessment Answer

Assessment Task:

ENG120: English Essay Writing Assessment Answer

Question 1: Boesman and Lena
Write a carefully planned and edited detailed analysis of the following extract from Boesman and Lena in order to demonstrate HOW (and why) the author evokes the
dynamics of the shifts in power between Boesman and Lena.

LENA:  He laughed then too, Outa. Like a madman, Running around shouting and laughing at our own people.
BOESMAN:  So would you if you’d seen them.
LENA: I did.
BOESMAN: You didn’t. You were sitting there with our things crying.
LENA:  I saw myself.
BOESMAN:  And what did that look like?
LENA: Me.
BOESMAN:  Only one.
LENA:  One’s enough.
BOESMAN:  Enough! Leave that word alone. You don’t know what it means.
LENA:  It was the same story for all of us. Once is enough if it’s a sad one.
BOESMAN:  Sad story? Those two that had the fight because somebody grabbed the wrong broek? 1 The ou trying to catch his donkey? Or that other one running around with his porridge looking for a fire to finish cooking it? It was bioscope, 2 man! And I watched it. Beginning to end, the way it happened. I saw it. Me. The women and children sitting there with their snot and tears. The pondoks 3 falling. The men standing, looking, as the yellow donner pushed them over and then staring at the pieces
when they were the only things left standing. I saw all that! The whiteman stopped the bulldozer and smoked a cigarette. I saw that too. [Another act.] ‘Ek sê, my baas . . .!’ 4 He threw me the stompie. ‘Dankie, baas.’

LENA:   They made a big pile and burnt everything.
BOESMAN:  Bonfire.
LENA:   He helped drag what was left of the pondoks. . . .
BOESMAN:   Of course. Full of disease. That one in the uniform told me. ‘Dankie, baas!’
LENA:   Just like that.
BOESMAN: [violently].  Yes! Dankie, baas.
You should have said it too, sitting there with your sad story. Whiteman was doing us a favour. You should have helped him. He wasn’t just burning pondoks. They alone can’t stink like that. Or burn like that. There was something else in that fire, something rotten. Us! Our sad stories, our smells, our world! And it burnt, boeta. 5 It burnt. I watched that too. The end was a pile of ashes. And quiet. Then . . . ‘Here!’ . . . then I went back to the place where our pondok had been. It was gone! You understand that? Gone! I wanted to call you and show you. There where we crawled in and out […], where we used to sit like them and eat, our head between our knees, our
fingers in the pot, hiding away so that the others wouldn’t see our food. . . . I could stand there! There was room for me to stand straight. You know what that is? Listen now. I’m going to use a word. Freedom! Ja, I’ve heard them talk it. Freedom! That’s what the white man gave us. I’ve got my feelings too, sister. It was a big one I had when I stood there. That’s why I laughed, why I was happy. When we picked up our things and started to walk I wanted to sing. It was Freedom!

LENA:   You still got it, ou ding?

Checklist for Boesman and Lena:
Have you done the following?
Note that producing a good assignment requires you to go back to the essay more than
once and spending several hours if not days on it.

 Have you read and reread the extract, highlighting the issues and details you want to write about?
 Have you planned your essay?

 Have you written an introduction identifying the play, author, context, and main ‘action’ of the extract, and linking your analysis to the question?

 Have you focused 80-90% of the essay on the DETAILS of the extract?

 Have you discussed word choice and the effect of the word choice?

 Have you considered aspects of the dialogue such as the use of silence, statements, questions and/or commands?

 Have you linked these aspects of the dialogue to the power dynamics between the characters?

 Have you shown the effects and functions of these details?

 Have you written a conclusion highlighting the overall deductions you make from the extract?

 Have you EDITED the essay, checking for grammar, spelling, sentence completeness, logic and accuracy?

Question 2: NERVOUS CONDITIONS
Read the following extract from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (pp.168-169), and write a structured and evidence-based essay in which you analyse how the character of Tambudzai is portrayed in the passage. In your introductory paragraph, ensure that you place the passage into context, and introduce the main ideas that your essay will develop (these ideas should be specific; do not just copy-paste the guiding criteria below). The body of your essay, which is the longest section consisting of multiple paragraphs, should discuss the questions below. What you make of these questions, and in what order you deal with them, is up to you, as long as your argument is structured and logical:

 Look at Tambu’s interactions in this scene: in what ways do you think she has developed, or stayed the same, since the beginning of the novel?

 How is Tambu’s body is described in the passage? What kind of psychological state do these descriptions suggest? Are there similar depictions of the body elsewhere in the novel? Offer at least two quotes from outside the passage to support your analysis. Your concluding paragraph should bring together, and briefly discuss, what you found to be the most interesting points of your analysis.

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