Ahh… Chapter 26 the end is near. It begins two months after John gets the medevac flight of John to Boston, and Kidder has returned with Farmer to the other side of the epic divide. Farmer laughs at the sight of a bumper sticker and reflects on how busy he is, stating he knows “something’s gotta give, but . . . he’s not burning out.” Arriving Cange Farmer talks to his chief of staff about how they would fix National Highway 3, how everyone now has to knock on doors. (very big deal since this means they have doors.) Then we finally get to learn the outcomes of some of the patients we learned about, like Ti Ofa, the guy with AIDS and the beginning. And the little boy named Alcante came into the clinic with scrofula and was given first-line drugs …show more content…
They also stop along the way to speak with other patients Farmer has been concerned about. Kidder has been trying for awhile to ask Farmer about John, has been unable to couch it in just the right way, but finally asks on this day. After a typical long winder Farmer explanation he says he feels pressured to give all the time, and sums it up as a “long defeat.”. They all come to Alcante’s home, Farmer see the boy’s impoverished hut with its old banana bark and rag roof. Framer just knows, with his all know Paul Farmer ways that money will help this family and stop the cycle of TB that is probably killing in the 10 people who live there. Then begin to walk toward the route where the truck will come. Along the way, Ti Jean tells Farmer not to speak to anyone on the road, because they may be demons. That makes Paul comment that a people who believe that you should take medicines and then see a Voodoo priest, use their religion as a means of driving away illness. The Chapter end with Kidder thinking that the sound of the drums is like “the beating of so many hearts under a single