(p125) The change of the condition had even paralysed her not even to be aware of the proceeding in time. The time, here, had been vacuumized. The false awareness of being within another time, place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She was in another time, place, consciousness.(p29) on the back the man kept glancing at his watch but she knew her's was an useless thing, here.(p43) The power had shifted to July for now, a servant had become a provider for everything the Smales need. The old systematized world founded by the white people was gone, the money become only bits of paper and the black people even painted a blueprint in a world there was no more tax and they could drive for themselves. The time is the black people's, as well as the new delimited boundaries that Maureen had mentally and physically disability to cross, being poisoned in the illusion of the past and the present. The present was his(July's),(p93) as Maureen couldn't walk into the boundlessness. Not so far as to take the dog around the block or to the box to post a letter.(p27) It seemed to Maureen that July had stolen some petty things from them while he worked as a servant back there, as now she could see the evidence in the hut, which could also implicate July's intention to the theft of power, seen from Maureen's point of view. She came upon a gadget for taking the dry cleaners tag's off clothes without breaking your nails.these things were once hers, back there; he must have filched them long ago. (p36) In the novel, July acted like a kind person who was willing to sacrifice for his old master though he was now in possession of power, and at the same time, in his dignity, in his own position and place, he suppress the Smales, he could want more from them, and he did, because here was his territory, and which made Maureen become agonizingly paranoid from back there to here.