Chapter 28 Summary

Within a week after the truce is declared, the trucks are back on the streets, and they are once again running over every pushcart they see. Many vendors are forced to dip into the war chest to help pay for repairs or new pushcarts. General Anna loses her pushcart as well when a truck tears off one of its wheels. General Anna has owned her pushcart for more than forty years, but now it is irreparable. All the vendors want to fight back but cannot find a way to do it without breaking the truce. The first to break the truce will be arrested, a situation all the vendors want to avoid. Mr. Jerusalem comes up with a way they can fight back without breaking the truce. He suggests that they form three groups of one hundred seventy carts and that they block...