The Capital

In Chapter two of The Power and the Glory, I got confused because at frist I thought that Mr. Tench was going to be the main character, but when I strated chapter two, I realized I was mistaken.

In this chapter, we can see the persecution against priest, and the resentment against church and priests. "And the priest came around with the collecting bag taking their centavos, abusing them for their small conforting sins, and sacrificing nothing at all in return, except a little sexual indulgance." Pg 22- 23. In this quotation , we are able to see the resentment of the people towards catholic religion, and specially the church. The people, argue by saying that people are giving their miserable centavos, and recieving nothing for exchange. The chief and the liuteunant, are persecuting priests, and the chief says that he is going to go make civil man hostages, and kill them, if no one reports the priest in town. "The lieutenant said suddenly, I will tell you what i´de do. I would take a man from every village of the state as a hostage. If the villagers didn´t report the man, when he came, the hostage would be shot, and then we´d take another one." Pg 24. People are descharging their rage and resentment towards the priests.

In my opinion, resentment generates ignorance in a way, because when people have any type of rage against something, in the majority of the cases, people just think and feel that way. But people with knowledge, will generally argue, and give some reasons, questioning further. People in this town just have resentment and think the way of fighting against religion, is by oppression and persecution, generating more violence, instead of making an intelligent statement, that make people think and question religion.

Im not understandin the motive of the book, i´m confused by the fact that they changed theme and character suddenly from one chapter to another. The only connection I was able to see was the "Juan", the boy that went asking for help to Mr Tench and The Stranger. He went to ask them to help his mom which was very sick, but in chapter 2 we see that Juan was killed by believing in religion.

The Port

In the fisrt chapter of The Power and the Glory, we where intorduced to a man known as Mr. Tench. They dont specify a lot about the man or the man´s life, but personally I have the doubt of why he is living in Mexico. We can see he´s occupation is to be a dentist. "Oh´, Mr. Tench said, yes your teeth. The man had none: that was why he could´nt talk clearly. Mr. Tench had removed them all." Pg 8 "Mr, Tench´s father had been a dentist too - his first memory was finding a discarded cast in a wastpaper basket - the rough toothless gaping mouth of clay, like something dug up in Dorset." Pg 12 By this quotation , we are able to discover a little of Mr. Tenchs´ past and family members. We can also deduce, that Mr. Tench is from England. "At home - I mean in England - it was generally the Laughing Cavalier - I dont know why - or else a Tudor rose." Pg 13 We can also see that before coming to Mexico Mr. Tench liked to write, and wasnt a dentist, but writing didnt give him enough money. "Oh, I gave up writing before I came here. What was the use? I could´nt send any money." Pg 15 In this page we can also see that he married once, but he never had a good relationship with he´s wife, and he´s wife´s mother. " It would´nt surprise me if my wife had married again. Her mother would like it - the old sour bitch: she never cared for me." Pg 15

In this chapter, I didn´t understand very well what was going on, and why was he going to leave to Vera Cruz, but we get to know a little about Mr. Tench, and his lifestyle.

The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski

This was a very interesting story, mixing all kinds of people, and contrasting wealthyness and starvation. In my opinion it is an ironic piece of writing, due to the fact that there are two extremes inside the story, different types of menus, and colors of invitations, depending on the importance of the people. In the middle of the text Kapuscinski highlights the fact that for every four persons, there is a black waiter. It is a relevant fact, but Kapuscinski makes the reader it is important, so we can see the diversity asisting the "party". People during the party where stealing the silver spoons and forks, due to its unrachable price. There where beggers in front of the kitchen, and all the leftovers are given to them..

In this party we can see the diversity of people and lifestyles, in a way it makes it ironical, because it shows all the faces of the world, by showing the wealthy ones with pleanty of food and the starving ones, shoeless begging for food. I think this is a way of showing the entire world, in a simple dinner party.

The Ogaden: autumn 76/Dispatches

On the Ogaden chapter, we read about how Kapuscinski was bitten by an escorpion, he survied to that, eo be able to continue with his next adventures.

The most important thing about this chapter, is the fight over Ogaden, wich is the teritorry which Somalia and Ethiopia are fighting for. They both agree that the territory belongs to each of the countries. During Kapuscinski´s visit in Ogaden, he starts to travle and to know the place, in Somalia, he asked some drivers to take him. In the middle of the road, the drivers where very scared, because of the dust they could´nt see if they where in their enemies teritory or in their own territory. "That means that, in their opinion, we were in Somalia, since they belived that their country coverded the whole desert. Nevertheless, they drove the whole time in anxiety and tension, fearing that we could improvidently stary into the depths of Ethiopia and end up in enemy hands." Pg. 223 We can relate the Ogaden with the fight over Gaza, by the Palestinian and the Israelis. Eventhough the fight over Gaza was for different motives, it is a fight over territories, in which both sides think they are right, and think they deserve the territory, better than the other. In this kind of situations, it is very difficult to come to an agreement, in which both sides are satisfied.

In the chapter Dispatches, the thing that most caught my attention was the Nana´s. These are man in every village, which are more than supirior, and have more authority tha anyone in the whole village. "There is a Nana in every village, because Nana means boss, head man, a sort of mayor but with more authority." Pg 229 What caugh my attention was that in those villages they where very ignorant, when they asked Kapuscinski where was he from they didn´t know where Poland was, they asked him if they where only white, and they where amazed they all where. But Kapuscinski explained that woman loved to tan, because they loved looking dark, and he was amazed. "The ones that become dark are proud of it, and others admire them for being as tanned as black." Pg 232

I really admire Kapuscinski, and in a way I envy him, because I would love to get to know half of the places he had the chance to visit. I think he was a very brave man, and that not everybody can deal with everything he ad to go through in this adventurous trip he made. Peple like him need t0o have a special kind of soul and blood. An adventurous soul.

Rehtorics in article of ground zero

ARTICLE:
September 19, 2007, 3:31 pmIranian Leader Was Denied Ground Zero VisitBy Thomas J. LueckMahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking in Tehran last month. (Photo: Bloomberg News)Updated, 5:59 p.m. An advance team for the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked earlier this month that he be allowed to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, but the request was denied, New York City police officials said today.…..Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly caused considerable confusion earlier today when he suggested that the request was still pending. In fact, police officials said later, the request — made at a meeting that included the Secret Service and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — was denied for reasons of security and safety. They added that Mr. Ahmadinejad’s aides had asked that he be allowed into the pit, where construction is taking place.Also today, the president of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger, announced that Mr. Ahmadinejad would speak at the university on Monday.Mr. Ahmadinejad is expected to arrive in New York late Sunday, address the United Nations sometime on Monday, and leave the city Wednesday morning, according to police officials.……..Mr. Ahmadinejad, elected in 2005, has been a leading antagonist of United States foreign relations. He has clashed with the Bush administration over his country’s nuclear program and human rights record. Mr. Ahmadinejad has also faced international criticism for calling the Holocaust a “myth” and sponsoring an international conference of people who denied the mass extermination of Jews in the Nazi regime. Leading Jewish groups, including the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, are planning to protest Mr. Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United Nations.…..Mr. Ahmadinejad has visited New York before. In September 2005, he addressed the General Assembly in a 29-minute speech, in which he refused to rein in his nuclear program and inveighed against the United States and its allies, accusing Americans of brutalizing Iraqis and Afghanis.In September 2006, the dean of Columbia University’s school of international and public affairs invited Mr. Ahmadinejad to speak at the school’s World Leaders Forum, but the university’s president, Mr. Bollinger, withdrew the invitation, saying he was not certain that an appearance by Mr. Ahmadinejad would “reflect the academic values” of the event.Mr. Ahmadinejad’s request came to light today in a discussion that Commissioner Kelly had reporters with several news organizations.Mr. Kelly, apparently relying on outdated information, said that Iranian officials had made a “formal request” that the police and Secret Service were discussing the matter with the Iranian Mission. The commissioner had said that the concerns had more to do with the logistics of dealing with the Iranian president’s large security detail than with his right, like any foreign visitor, to travel freely in the city. But Mr. Kelly had ruled out a trip into the pit. “Construction is in full swing, and it would not be possible for him to go where other people don’t go,” Mr. Kelly said.A short while later, around 4:15 p.m., the Police Department’s spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said that Mr. Kelly misspoke and that police commanders had already decided that a visit to ground zero by Mr. Ahmadinejad was not feasible.Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, issued a statement denouncing Mr. Ahmadinejad’s request:…..Ahmadinejad’s shockingly audacious request should be met with a vehement no. It’s inconceivable that any consideration would be given to the idea of entertaining the leader of a state sponsor of terror at ground zero. This would deeply offend the sensibilities of Americans from all corners of our nation. Instead of entertaining Ahmadinejad, we should be indicting him.Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a New York Democrat and also a presidential candidate, issued a statement:…..It is unacceptable for Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who refuses to renounce and end his own country’s support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation’s history.Also today, Mr. Bollinger said that Mr. Ahmadinejad would speak at the World Leaders Forum, organized by Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, on Monday. Mr. Bollinger said in a statement:In order to have such a University-wide forum, we have insisted that a number of conditions be met, first and foremost that President Ahmadinejad agree to divide his time evenly between delivering remarks and responding to audience questions. I also wanted to be sure the Iranians understood that I would myself introduce the event with a series of sharp challenges to the President on issues including:the Iranian President’s denial of the Holocaust;his public call for the destruction of the state of Israel;his reported support for international terrorism that targets innocent civilians and American troops;Iran’s pursuit of nuclear ambitions in opposition to international sanction;his government’s widely documented suppression of civil society and particularly of women’s rights; andhis government’s imprisoning of journalists and scholars, including one of Columbia own alumni, Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh.I would like to add a few comments on the principles that underlie this event. Columbia, as a community dedicated to learning and scholarship, is committed to confronting ideas­ to understand the world as it is and as it might be. To fulfill this mission we must respect and defend the rights of our schools, our deans and our faculty to create programming for academic purposes. Necessarily, on occasion this will bring us into contact with beliefs many, most, or even all of us will find offensive and even odious. We trust our community, including our students, to be fully capable of dealing with these occasions, through the powers of dialogue and reason.I would also like to invoke a major theme in the development of freedom of speech as a central value in our society. It should never be thought that merely to listen to ideas we deplore in any way implies our endorsement of those ideas, or the weakness of our resolve to resist those ideas, or our naiveté about the very real dangers inherent in such ideas. It is a critical premise of freedom of speech that we do not honor the dishonorable when we open the public forum to their voices. To hold otherwise would make vigorous debate impossible.That such a forum could not take place on a university campus in Iran today sharpens the point of what we do here. To commit oneself to a life­ and a civil society ­prepared to examine critically all ideas arises from a deep faith in the myriad benefits of a long-term process of meeting bad beliefs with better beliefs and hateful words with wiser words. That faith in freedom has always been and remains today our nation’s most potent weapon against repressive regimes everywhere in the world. This is America at its best.

Type: logos (logic statement)
examples:
The commissioner had said that the concerns had more to do with the logistics of dealing with the Iranian president’s large security detail than with his right, like any foreign visitor, to travel freely in the city. But Mr. Kelly had ruled out a trip into the pit. “Construction is in full swing, and it would not be possible for him to go where other people don’t go,” Mr. Kelly said.

A short while later, around 4:15 p.m., the Police Department’s spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said that Mr. Kelly misspoke and that police commanders had already decided that a visit to ground zero by Mr. Ahmadinejad was not feasible.

I also wanted to be sure the Iranians understood that I would myself introduce the event with a series of sharp challenges to the President on issues including:the Iranian President’s denial of the Holocaust;his public call for the destruction of the state of Israel;his reported support for international terrorism that targets innocent civilians and American troops;Iran’s pursuit of nuclear ambitions in opposition to international sanction;his government’s widely documented suppression of civil society and particularly of women’s rights.

Ptahos(emotional statement)
Examples:
Mr. Ahmadinejad, elected in 2005, has been a leading antagonist of United States foreign relations. He has clashed with the Bush administration over his country’s nuclear program and human rights record. Mr. Ahmadinejad has also faced international criticism for calling the Holocaust a “myth” and sponsoring an international conference of people who denied the mass extermination of Jews in the Nazi regime.

Ahmadinejad’s shockingly audacious request should be met with a vehement no. It’s inconceivable that any consideration would be given to the idea of entertaining the leader of a state sponsor of terror at ground zero. This would deeply offend the sensibilities of Americans from all corners of our nation. Instead of entertaining Ahmadinejad, we should be indicting him.

Columbia, as a community dedicated to learning and scholarship, is committed to confronting ideas­ to understand the world as it is and as it might be. To fulfill this mission we must respect and defend the rights of our schools, our deans and our faculty to create programming for academic purposes.

I would also like to invoke a major theme in the development of freedom of speech as a central value in our society. It should never be thought that merely to listen to ideas we deplore in any way implies our endorsement of those ideas, or the weakness of our resolve to resist those ideas, or our naiveté about the very real dangers inherent in such ideas.

Ethos(character statement)
Examples:
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly caused considerable confusion earlier today when he suggested that the request was still pending.

Iran’s pursuit of nuclear ambitions in opposition to international sanction;his government’s widely documented suppression of civil society and particularly of women’s rights.

But Mr. Kelly had ruled out a trip into the pit. “Construction is in full swing, and it would not be possible for him to go where other people don’t go,”

It is unacceptable for Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who refuses to renounce and end his own country’s support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation’s history.

There will be no Paradise

In this chapter, form pages 205 to 216 we read that Kapuscinski was in Cyprus, and the war between Greeks and Turks was taking place. The title cuaght my attention, because at first he was amazed with the beauty of the place, but afterwards he gets to a refugee camp, full of homeless people. There was a confusion, and they told Kapuscinski to say a encouragment speech for all these people. But he was speechless, he knew that what he could say would be worthless, because he had just arrived to Cyprus, and he knew nothing.

Still he satrt talking, andthis was the part of the chapter who intrested me the most. He started talking, and telling them how he understood their situation, and how hard it would be. It is very intresting, because he starts to be empathetic with this people, so you understand the situation they are in. "There are always dark clouds and we can never knowwhen and where these clouds will produce a deluge." Pg.207 In this quotation, we realize that Kapuscinski spells some supportive words. "I have seen so misfortune in my life and here I see more." Pg 2007 When he says this, I think people have a connection with him. He explains how these people are living, but the most amaizing part is how he describes, the way the feel. This description, makes you feel it somehow.

I think that after seeing the devastating life these people where going through, Kapuscinski realized that there would´nt be any paradise.

Silence is a signal of unhappiness

In pages 185 to 204 we read about the death of Vicotriano Gomez, about an un written book plan, and about some soldier boots.

Victoriano Gomez was a guerrillero, who was The Robin Hood in El Salvador. "He urged the peasants seize land." Pg. 186 He was in a soccer staduim, and he was executed in the middle of the field. "He was shot under the afternoon sun, in the football stadium." Pg 185 We can see how there is was in the middle of a soccer game. So we can deduce that a soccer match is very similar to a war.

In the unwritten book plan, we could see like he would of like to make a dictionary opf words. Some of the words he listed where silence, black, spirits, hierarchy, locked up, fortress, state visit, and life. In each of them he describes a piece of expirience or personal opinion about every word listed.

The word that caught my attention the most was Silence. He describes, like silence is bad in every sense, he explains how silence is a sign of unhappiness or trouble. "This neglect reveals the absence of that infallible intuition that every mother has when her child falls suddenly silent in its room." Pg 189 In this quotation I realized it is true sometimes a silence is more expresive than words. When I read this I remembered of moments where something worried me and I was more silent than the usual and my mother instantly knew something was wrong. They always have a six sense when it relates with their children. "Mothers know silence signifies something wrong." Pg189 "Silence is a signal of unhappiness and, ofen, of a crime." Pg 189 This frase is very true, when people are sometimes guilty, they rather be silent than speak, maybe because they feel safer, and with less propability of being caught, or fall into saying something inadecuate. And certainly it is a sign of unhappiness, because people prefer to keep things to themselves, due to the fear they might feel of being judged by others. "Is there more of what is said or of what is not said?" This quotation made me think a lot and it is true, politicians and high executives, sometimes feel the need of hiding information, weather it is personal or not, so they dont damage the image they need in a daily bases to prosper and to succeed in their areas. Not only politicians and high executives hide issues, every human being, hides things they rather others not to know. People hide their own issues, because it is a part of themselves, they dont like and they dont want to show, in order to be liked by others.

The Soccer War

In this moment of the book I can start to connect and undesrtand why the book is called The Soccer War. In this chapter specially we can see how Kapuscinski describes wars, as if they where soccer matches. "But the return match of the series took place in San Salvafor, beautiffly named Flor Blanca stadim, a week later. This time it was the Hunduran team who spent a sleepless night. The screaming crowd of fans broke all the windows in the hotel and threw rotten eggs, dead rats and stinging rags inside." Pg. 158 We can see like in a sentence involved with war and revolution, he writes about staidums, fans, and crowds. What I think about the name The Soccer War is that it is named like that, because in every war there are two opponents, and one that is deafeated. Rearly there is a tie, it also involves fans(if it is correct to call it this way), which defend their sides, and their hometown. In this case the soccer war was between El Salvador and Honduras, which alarmed and destroyed many people, and ended in a "tie", none of the two sides, achived any progress or any gain, they both lost many people.


In this chapter of the soccer war we can also see how poverty and roughness is a big issue between people. "He kept looking at the shoes of the other members of his company as the crawled forward. He blinked, weighed somethin in his mind and at last said hoplessley: Toda mi familia anda descalzada(My whole family goes barefoot." Pg.177 In this quotation we can see how poverty is affecting the people around, and how simple things like shoes are a very important factor in a persons daily life, and how we people that dont have those needs dont find it relevant. " A wounded boy arrived in a truck. A salvadoran. He had taken a bullet on the knee he was ordered to lie down on the grass. The boy was barefoot, pale, spattered with blood. The orderly pokedaround in his knee, looking for the bullet. The boy moaned." "Quiet you poor bastard, the orderly said. You´re distracting me." Pg. 173 In this quotation , we can see both roughness and poverty. The childeren was also barefoot, and Kapuscinski, highlighgts that in several ocassions, in this quotation and in the one before in page 177. And in this quotation, we can also see the roughness of the orderly towards the bullet boy.

traveling around the world

In pages 137 to 156 we read that Kapuscinski was very ill and that he was eaten by the worst disease of all loneliness. "More devastating than malaria, or amobeas, fevers or contagion is the disease of loneliness, the disease of the tropical depression." Pg. 137- 138. In my opinion people feel lonley and depressed when nothing is propspering in the sorroundings. I also think that people mood affect you in some way. When you sorround yourself with happy people, that joy would be passed to you, but when everything around you is desolated, you will feel the same way.

We also read about how Warsaw was very worried about Kapuscinski. They didnt want him to saty there and wait for a tragedy to end up with him. Kapuscinski stayed though, continuing with his adventures, and to be able to finish waht he had once satarted. " I kindly request, I read in the telegram, that once and for all oyu put an end on these exploits, that could end in a tragedy". Pg 141. I personally think that kapuscinski did the right thing with continuing with his journey, tht shows that he was a commited person, who once he started something he would end with it.

Kapuscinski traveled to South America. He arrived to Chile, and he describes the city and its sorroundings, the way that people live, and how different things are. He also talks about Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. He narrates about the market place on Quetzaltepec, about a frien of him, Pedro Morote in Peru, about a bolivian sargent who shot Che Guevara, and the old indian in the Mexican desert. I really like the way this author writes and apasionately describes the places he visits.

I am really liking the book and I am enjoying the way Kapuscinski writes, making me experience many emotions like suspense and intrigue. I look forward to see what other places he is going to visit, and waht other adventures he is going to live. I am also intrigue to see if he is going to visit Colombia.

kapuscinski reports hit communism at home

This audio clip takes place the day after Kapuscinskis death. They narrate about the journeys he makes to Africa, and he later writes The Soccer War, living with a very small budget, and living between wars between countries, and also between civil wars. For example when he had to pass through the UPGA group and almost got killed. The adudio clip also talks about his friendship with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and how they made conferences to young people in Latin America. It also tells about a journey to Nicaragua and El Salvador, and how he always traveled with a low budget, and had to compete with other reporter, and then write his adventures. I think it was a very exiting life the one he lived and I think it is very admirable the work he did with so much complications and small acomodations.

A Dispute over a Judge ends in the Fall of a Goverment/ The burning roadblocks

In these two chapters we read, when Kapuscinski goes from Algiers to Accra and in the airport was filled of soldiers, and waht happened was that they had uncovered a conspiracy against the republic. President Nkrumah was giving a press conference about Rhodesia, and how the security was so present inside the house where the press conference was heading at. We also read hoe there was a civil war in Nigeria. Policeman where stopping al cars in the road, searching for weapons. The Yourbas was split into two. UPGA and the NNDP. The majority of people where in the UPGA. We can see how these people are crazy for power and they are willing to do whatever just to reach their goal. The author explains the cruelty the made to people, burning them alive, and burning every car that passed through their way. He also tells us how he was on the edge of death several times, not only for crossing their way, but also for being white. He had to give them money so they didnt kill him, and so they dindt burn his car. He aslo explains that he thought they had smoked hashish because they had anger in their eyes. Personally I think Kapuscinski was very risky and had a lot of guts to go over there in the UPGAs teritory, risking his life, only for a piece of work and a little of adventure, but I also think it is very admirable and very good he got to know so many places I would like to go to , but maybe not have the chance. I am liking a lot the book, because I am learning about common knowledge in a fun way , with a lot of adventures and interesting facts and stories that really take place.

Algeria Hides its Face

In this chapeter the most important thing in my opinion, was the supposed murder of Ben Bella the president of Algeria. Throughout the chapter we can see there was a lot of violence and betray within people. There where four theories of Ben Bellas murder. To have been killed, to be wounded, to be alive, and not to be wounded but ill. The mureder was taken place in the presidential house, during the guard change. We can relate the temparate of Ben Bella with Meursault´s, because they both where impatient and agressive. Another important part of this chapter, was when the author narrates about the war between Algeria and France, and how the war ended in defeat for France. This was one of the biggest war lasting seven years, with Chinas and Vietnams. In this chapter we can see the violence and war issues in Algeria, similar to Colombias problems with violence.

The Soccer War (The Hotel Metropol)

In pages 11 to 21 we realize that the book is based on a story in Africa. The book starts in Accra in a hotel where they narrate us how everyone is constantly driking. People see the nesecity to drink, during the day it is optional, but they say that during the night it is mandatory, beacuse the consequences will be insomnia. "So you drink. Against the night, against the depression, against the foulness floating in the bucket of your fate. Thats the only struggle youre capable of". Pg. 12. This shows life kicks these people very hard. In my opinion I see this kind of life like dark, deppresive, and trying to hide under the liquor the unhappiness of the people living it. Latter on the narrator talks about Uncle Wally, he drinks a lot beacuse supposedly, it is good for his lungs so he sits every night and order a bottle of whiskey. Anne, the laydy he loves comes to him and asks kim for money, they argue because she likes rich guys, so he is not enough for her. After wards the narrator talks about a trip he made with an Arab friend of him, from London to Accra. He explains hoe there was a women beside the Arab with some flowers, because she was going to visit his boyfriend. The Arab tries to hit on her, but she insists that she is not interest. The Arab continues telling her that he is very rich that he promises a good life, with a lot of money. She pisses off and moves to another seat. "In the end the Scandinavian, calm and patient at the outset, grew bored, then angry, and then she told him to stop tormenting her, and finally she got up and moved to another seat." In this quotaion we can see the patience of the laydy, and we see how she slowly starts to get angrier. She satrted being very calm and she ended up changing seats, so we can deduce how insisting the Arab was with her. I dindt understand very well where the book is heading, and I cant tell if I am going to like it, but by the moment it is kind of confusing.

In pages 100 to 123 we read about the trail and how Meursaul is very tired and he wants to end up inmediatley with the trail. The judge says he would have his head cut off in a public square in the name of the French poeople. This news made Meursault a little scared and conscious of the situation he was in to. A priest went to prision to talk with Meursault and told him the the best thing to do in that moment was to belive in God and to relay on him so his hopes would rise and he could feel safer. Meursaul didnt belive in anything the pries said and thought it was something very stupid. Meursaul was loosing everything he might belive in and was thinking that he had no way out the problem he was in to. "Life isnt worth living". Pg. 114. Tjis was after he was told he was going to be dead before he thought he would. He lost all his hopes and it was then he understood life was not worth living. "A world that now and forever meant nothing to me". Pg.122 We could see Meursaul in the end of the book didnt regret and didnt try to make things better, as I thought he would do at the end. We werent able to see what happened in the end, beacuse in the end of the book he wasnt dead, but we can deduce that he was going to be dead in a couple of days. In the end of the book Meursault was the same man with no feelings towards anything or anyone, and without any regret.

In pages 81 to 100 we can see that Meursaul is still in trail. The judge askes Thomas Perez, Salamano, Raymond, Masson, and Marie. When Salamano and Masson testified, the judge was not intrested in what they had to say, due to the fact that he had no credibility left in Meursault. People did not belive in him anymore, only Salamano and Masson who said he was a good person, and Marie who was deeply in love with him. In this pages, I think maybe Maursalut is going to realize that all hes done is being a mistake, and he is maybe going to become sensitive. For example in this quote we realize that maybe he is regreting what he has dond and he satrts to care what people think about him: "I had this stupid urge to cry, because I could feel how much all this people hated me". PG. 90. This is after the judge heard from Meursault that he didnt know how old was Maman, and after listening that he had not cried in Mamans funeral, so the judge said that was enough. So Meursault felt kind of abrumated and finally guilty. " For the first time i felt I was guilty." Pg 90. This was when he said that he and Maman didnt need anything from eachother, and that they had already learned how to live without eachother.