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July's People | Chapters 18-19 Summary and Analysis
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Chapter eighteen introduces a diversion, a huge distraction for the whole village. Maureen sees a man walking with a red box on his head. He is a far distance from the village, and she tracks his progress towards them throughout the day. She has to escape Bam's fiddling with the radio and his foreign nature, so she stays outside the hut. She does not want to go to the river, where the children swim despite her warnings of water-borne diseases. She watches the bush and follows the red box's path with her eyes. Memories bombard her, seemingly without her...
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