The Power and the Glory II

On this second chapter of The Power and the Glroy, the author, Graham Greene enters with a complete different story than the one in the beginning. The first is an English "doctor", you must be asking why did I put " to doctor, because I feel there is something behind this man, that he has a strange past. On the next chapter we have three different and important characters appearing in our reading,they are the lieutenant, Padre Jose and the kid. This three characters have alot of thing different, but at the end, perhaps the all have a connection one to one. The liutenant is a character that hates priests for exploting people, he has a high tattitude towards everyone and everything. In compare to the little kid, they both have some ideas about life, the lieutenant thinks that the universe is fundamentally chaotic, and the little kid doesn't pays attention to anything that his mother is telling him. Maybe theres a relationship in time of cahracters, maybe they are all just one character, represented in different ages, but in the same era (years). The third characeter is Padre Jose, is a guy, who we dont know alot exactly, we jus tknow rumors and tales, but nothing concriet. He is full of shaem to him self, with the other unnamed priest. This book is really interestinf becuase it leaves us, the reader, tons of questions and sapces to fill in with our imagination. I like this because it gives the reader perosnal opinions about the book and a way of interacting with the story. There is nothing tru now, all of this are some premonitions that I give to the book.

The Power and the Glory I

The Power and the Glory is a very complicated novel, at the beginning. It starts with Mr. Tench, a dentist, which lived in England and now in Mexico. The novel hasn’t told us exactly what’s the location of it, but by reading the text, we can conclude that it takes place in Mexico. Mr. Tench is a dentist, which has lived alone in his apartment for thirteen years. Just by reading this we can say that Mr. Tench has a relationship to Kapuscinsky, a very abandoned person, on the novel, they both don’t inter act a lot with people, they have lonely lives, no women, nor kids. This book is just starting and it catched my attention really fast, and I hope to see more comparisons and relationships, conflicts and drama on this book.

The Soccer War part III...

"And so we have misfortune, we have a war. It is an unjust, dirty, hooliganish war in which all methods are allowed-whatever it takes to knockout the opponent and gain control..." (pg 130). This war was happening in Nigeria on January 1996, a war which didnt had restricitons, nor limits. From this point on, my reading experience just grew 100%, not only I learned new facts about Africa and the world, but travled into Kapuscinski's time and lived his moments as he passed the roadblocks. ON every roadbock that he described, I felt more terrified, shocked and with mor interest to keep reading and know whats coming on the next paragraph or page. "No white man can come back alive. I was driving to see if a white man could, becasue I had to experience everything for myself." (pg 140).

A really interesting topic that catched my attention also was that the narrator talks about "perspiration." It is said that perspiration in the tropics is, if you will, healthy. Whoever perspires can bear the climate. It wont wear him out." (pg 138). To perspire you need to drink alot, juices, soft drinks, and a little alcohol do you some good to. This is like a little key to keep alive on the tropic, some times polite modest or even humble people in Europe fall into rage easily, this is because Africa is like a different world .

The Soccer War Part II

I've realized that Ben Bella isn't the main character, nor the good person I thougt he was. Yes, hes very honest and everything, but when you keeop reading the novel, you see that "He grew intolerant, he shouted at them...Today I've decided taht so-and-so" (pg 111). Ben Bella no longer trusted anyone, he decided everything. We see from this poitn on another Ben Bella another president of Algeria. This man now, met wiht the leftists and made promises to them he couldn't keep, and in the afternoon he met wight the right wing, and ma de more promises taht he couldnt keep, my hypothesis of Ben Bella was totaly wrong, this man became from a honset and respectfull man, to a menace to Algeria. Then a coup was organized by Hourari Boumedienne, the next president of Algeria. Ben Bella and Boumedienne were two radically different characters, they had really different mentalities. This coup showed Algerians for what they are, a Third World Country. Thats why Boumedienne conludes at the end of the chapter, "The Algerian revolution is a revolution of suprises."

Soccer War part I

Rysard Kapuscinski’s, Soccer War, is a novel base on real facts, about a African country called Algeria, and all its problems, coups, wars, economical and social. We started by reading this book on page 95 “Algeria Hides Its Face.” From the beginning, we know our main character, Ben Bella, the president of Algeria. By getting more deep on this chapter, we can see clearly all the conflicts that Algeria has passed, revolutions, economical problems, social problems and rebelion against their own goverment. But "Ben Bella had been a student of no ideological school and had joined the movement only becasue he wanted a free Algeria".(pg 107) we see clearly that from this point on, Ben Bella from his childhood wanted just the good for his country, we see him as a leader, as a man with his ideas straight at the age of 17-18. "He wanted to create a life for women. Now the men will lock us back up in the home."(pg 107) Here, it states when Ben Bella had been removed, one person told Kapuscinski (the narrator) that now that Bella was gone, women had no rights, meaning that he gave women another cnocepto of life, Ben Bella showed the correct way to treat and respect women. For me a disrespectful thing agaist women is leaving them locked on their houses doing nothing, women also have values, and courage to work just like men. Ben Bella is one of the few men in Algeria which cares about women and thats a big point on this book.