Mr. Maxted is also in the Lunghua camp and he and Jim push the food cart for their G block dormitory. Mr. Maxted makes a small joke about Jim's golf shoes. Jim runs into his dorm room to stash the turtle.
Jim shares a room with another family, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent and their six year old son. They make him hang a separation between his cubicle and their living space and force him away from them. Mrs. Vincent does nothing to help Jim and he knows that if he were dying she would find some polite reason not to help him. Mrs. Vincent sits and stares at the void. The single children in the prison were neglected unless they were willing to become servants to the others. Jim refused and never.....
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