I've noticed that his chapters are not chronological - the stories in them, I mean. They can cover the entire two years. Each chapter is a different subject.
In this chapter he vaguely describes the people. It's mostly his living situation and relationship with Mbaya (an 18 year old who cooks and cleans for Tidwell, though this is the only time he's mentioned - I can vouch for up to pg 126, anyway. And I wonder why he isn't mentioned in Chapter 11 when Tidwell talks about dependence on youth?)
Tidwell uses his own sicknesses, which were awful, to stress that the villagers were much worse and had to endure their entire lives. I felt his pain, but I don't think the comparison was enough. I had trouble imaging worse, I wanted to be told, or shown. Maybe it was too hard to imagine.
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