Ambuya Vs. Aunt Chipo

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Ambuya and Aunt Chipo from Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer are two very different people who don’t have many things in common besides being related and religion . Ambuya is a very loving and caring person, she loves all until you give her a reason not to. Aunt Chipo is just very mean and cares only of her perfect daughter and her self, and wants Nhamo out of the picture. Ambuya is a modern and traditional person but Aunt chipo is all traditional. The relationship between them has love, hate, and is sometimes tense Ambuya shows favoritism to Nhamo and that just adds to Chipo jealousy and anger toward Nhamo. Ambuya is a very loving and caring person as long as you are truthful and humble and she really loves her daughter but does not respect her very much because of her vanity. She feels this way because she is all about her “perfect daughter” who is not perfect from Ambuja's perspective. She loves Masvita all the same but she likes a girl who can think like a modern person but have traditional morals. Like Ambuya with her religion but still has an opinion on how things work. Like she challenges the muviki and his “power” she has a mindset that is modern because she challenges things that people in her tradition would never question because that is just how it is and that’s all that they know. Ambuya thinks hard about things that a women in their culture are not supposed to. She is very intelligent so she can find a way out of things, like she did for Nhamo. Ambuya uses both of her life ideas traditional and modern to make something work, for example when she told Nhamo what she had to do to get out of marrying Zororo Motoko. “That’s stealing,” Protested Nhamo. “That’s survival. I, your elder, command you to do it. Now go I... ... middle of paper ... ...ya is very tense and heated. They bicker and fight over all things and the littlest topics. Nhamo and Masvita had no regard to their fighting any more but once they have a really big fight and Masvita was stunned but their volume. “Over their cries, Masvita whimpered, “Please don't fight I can't bare it.” ” In this instance they were yelling over each other In conclusion I feel aunt Chipo is just out to get anyone who challenges her or her daughters perfectness. Ambuya stands up for what she believes in and thinks about how each thing she does can affect what she needs for the future. Aunt Chipo hates Nhamo’s guts because of her mother and her being favored by Ambuya. The two just don’t get along very often but on certain things they agree but they are completely different people. Works Cited Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster. New York: Orchard, 1996. Print.

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