These last two chapters have answered some of my earlier questions. In the beginning Ad'jibid'ji did not like Tiemoko and I see why. He has caused all sorts of problems. First, he devises a plan to take Diara and hold a trial because Diara stopped participating in the strike and joined the other side. He tried to pin everyone against Diara, even Diara's son. While this trial is going on Ad'jibid'ji and her grandfather, Fa Keita, show up at the meeting and Keita speaks his mind on the matter and how they should not hurt Diara anymore than they already have. Tiemoko feels as though Keita stole his moment and the reader now sees how selfish he truly is and how the world revolves around him.
After this very memorable moment, disaster strikes. The militiamen come by Ad'jibid'ji's and Niakoro's home looking for Keita. They find him and drag him from his home and in the process injure Ad'jibid'ji and kill Niakoro. I knew before this incident that things would get out of hand fast but this was, in a way, an accident and Ad'jibid'ji's fault. She wanted to go to the meeting and forced Keita to come along. If he did not speak up at the meeting, the militiamen would not have taken him from his home. Niakoro's death was also a part in this because if the men did not show up she would not have been killed by them. I also think that it was an accident that they hit her and she died. She was not their target but was in the way of the final goal. Her death is very similar of the one the twin had in the beginning of the novel.
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