Chapters 9 and 10 both have significant events that are worth mentioning. First off in chapter 9, there is more of the stuggle for women to gain more of a role in the Senegalese culture. The police men come on horses and the women decide that they are going to fight back, they decide to use fire to ward off the police man. It does work, but a simple flaw in their plan is that if a fire is to catch anywhere within the neighborhood, which it does, what are they going to use to put it out? Unfortunatly they dont really have anything, and the fire destroys their neighboorhood. Although tragic for the women, their strength and significance in the strike continues to grow.
Chapter 10 has another death that can be considered somewhat ironic. In some ways it is easy to feel bad for the character as his life is depicted as very unplesant, through his reflections on it himself, and seeing numerous people turn him away when he is need of food. In the end he falls, hits his head, and ends up being eaten by rats, the very specimin he tried to kill for food.
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