In the next pages, Kapuscinski talks about silence, black, locked up, fortress, life and hierarchy. It shows the way that people make silence and how silence has been made through history. ''Silence is a signal of unhappiness and, often, of crime.'' (Pg.189) He gives the example of how people kept silence in the Inquisition and how dictators make their state to keep silence but they are trying to violate it. This is so true, people keeps silence and hide things but how can people be so silent while they see evrything that is heppening and the corruption and wars that surround the world '' What if you could calculate the number of people working in the silence industry?''(pg.190) He talks about the Kimbangist and the way youy enter and how things are seen. He uses the expression ''Negro'' which are the way churches are called. ''The Kimbangist believed that Jesus ca,e into the world as a Negro''(Pg.191) I think that this is a really interesting fact, because we can see the way diffrent people think about religion or the way Jesus was born. '' Kimbangu was born among the Bakong tribe at the end of the last century''(Pg.191) (Important fact because I would not know what this was, he is a prophet called Simon Kimbangu) '' He said that he had been sent by God...''(Pg.191) In my opinion this is impressing because I really do not believe in this prophetst that say they were sent by God. I have my own religion and believes, but I still respect the way people have their own believes. Later on Kapuscinski talkes of how he was sentenced to death and the persecution of the Kimbangists started. This prophet changes the faces of all the saints in his church in the jungle to black, the first revolutionary action in Congo.
Spirits in Africa... '' In first place, no one has ever seen a bullet in a flight, so how can i t be proved that someone died because somebody else fired''(Pg 192) Its amazing how people have their own rituals and ways of thinbking why things happen. '' There is no cruelty in this- for someone who is forced to fight against dangerous and omnipresent world of spirits''(pg.193) Hierarchy ''is a system of ranking and organizing things or people, where each element of the system (except for the top element) is a subordinate to a single other element.'' (Wikipedia) ''In Accra, in the buildings of the ministries, the hierarchy of position corresponds to the hierarchy of floors...''(Pg193) He describes that way people are organized.
Kapuscinski has his own believes of why people are kidnapt and mostly diplomats ''The answer is in the context of Latin American political prisoners situation. Namely: Whoever protests or fights against the regime is locked up in prison ''(pg. 193) This is a thinking that is true in someway or not. Today people get kidnapped all the time for no reason. Kapuscinski talkes about the situation of these people which I agree in and has not changed in so many years, the diffrence could be that ways of torturing. After commenting about all the words with their meaning the way the authors sees them , their is and explanation about life. What he wanted to do was to write a dictionary book, but '' whenever I start, taking a deep breath and crossing myself as if getting ready to jump into deep water''(pg197) I think he gives this explanation because its his way of explaining that each time that he tries to write a word with a shot meaning he just can't because he has so much to tell about everything.
Lter.. He talks about a man that met him in Damascus, he was a commander of the fedayeen groups that were fighting on Mount Hermon. I think that its really interesting the way that they show an act of ''friendship'' they give a fruit. ''During the elevator ride, he reaches into his bag and hands me an apple.''(pg.199) What impresses me , is, the commander asked him what he thought about the war they were having, and he said he had never seen something similar and that the war they had was diffrent. He describes this war and it is really violent. He says something trhat malkes me think : '' A person who lived through a great war is diffrent from someone who never lived through a war''(pg.200) This is weird because this is kind of obvious so it makes me think that maybe he put in in a diffrent meaning. '' Anyone who says that you can achive a lasting vistory without great losses, that you can have a war without cementaries, does not know what he is talking about.''(pg201) In the rest of this chapter, he talks about diffrent wars and what he thinks. Why some countries have won and other lose and I like the way he thinks about this and the oppinions he has about all the things that are happening.
