Algeria Hides his face

As seen, the author Kapuscinski, uses the book The Soccer War as talking about his experiences that he has had in life. As you said in class, this author is a reported and he used this book as a way of showing and talking about what he has lived. He starts talking about Ben Bella the president of Algeria. In everything said about his by this author is really premise and specific. The are two things in this book that can be similar to the Stranger. The first thing would be him being in prison ‘’From his prison he developed a pelicular habit of relaxation; he could sit for hours without moving’’ (pg.96) This is a perfect example of how Monsieur Mersault is, he was in prison and there is no attitude over it, its just so natural. The other thing similar, this author is really specific about everything he says, its really detailed. It talks for a while about this president,. Who trusted completely in one of his guards and he made him a terrorist act. He had pelicular attitudes and ways of talking acting and eating. We can also see in this report that Algeria has been affected by the continuation of wars. "Algeria lay closest to its colonial metropolis. Today it takes two hours to fly from Algiers to Paris, two hours that are not only a fact of communication but also a symbol of the bond between France and Algeria." (99) The French fought a lot with the Algerians millions of people where killed and a lot of damages were caused. ‘’The war ended in defeat for France. But Algeria paid a high price for their victory…One tenth of the Algerian population died’’ (Pg.101) This is a great examples of what happens a lot in the actual life, people have wars and a lot of innocent people die many because they are fighting for their rights. What happened in this war was terrible, a lot of people had to go and live somewhere else, no homes and no jobs. ‘’This had never been a homogeneous society….mix of ethnic groups…social classes, tribes and clans: rich and complex mosaic’’ (pg.102) Do to this social classes and a homogeneous society the war was divided in the French and in the ones who fought within the country and who fought outside the b orders. Ben Bella was a president not such a good one. First of all being in jail is not a good example for anyone in my opinion and then being the president of a country, and also he promised a lot of things to people and did not pay attention then and a lot of injustice happened. This I can compare it to a movie called The Interpreter that the president promises a lot of thing and at the end lots of people die and everyone hates him. "He talked with each faction and made promises to each. In the morning he met with the leftists and made promises he could not keep; in the afternoon he met with the right wing and made more promises that he could not keep."(112) Ben Bella lied to the press and said that in their country they were very unite and that was not true. The country was in serious needs of money and it was being wasted irrationally. What the author wants to show is that it’s a disaster, out there things are really bad and they are not being seen. There are presidents that are really corrupt and bad for the country , he was becoming a dictatorship and this reported talked about the horrifying moments that were happening in the country at that moment.