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.