Quote:
"She wanted Mama Dozie to hit her and slap her if that would make Mama Dozie feel better, if it would turn everything she had just told the members of her extended family gathered in this room a lie."
Question:
Is she so stressed that she really thinks there's an incredibly small chance things might go back to normal?
Comment:
Olanna must be under incredible pressure and pain to desperately wish for something impossible. It's not hard to imagine her being near or at a breaking point after seeing her close relatives dead in front of their destroyed house, then having to report it to the rest of your family. She's hoping that she might be lying. Wanting and hoping are different. Wanting is just to desire, but not neccesarily need or desperately crave. Hope is to beleive there is a chance, no matter how big or small, something positive will happen.
Aside from the obvious good and bad, hope and fear are the same. Hope and fear are both expectations for something to happen. The only difference is one is expecting the positive and one is expecting the negative.
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