The Soccer War (power)

Guilty and without feelings

We know that Meursalt is guilty but his personality or in the way he feels makes him in some way look innocent. This part of the book surprise me a lot because Meursalt stay long hours in prison sleeping and sometimes remebering memories from before, but he still did not show any kind of emotions. I do not know how the stranger could keep so much time alone in prison and thinking of his past but without any kind of feeling. For me staying at home alone and thinking on the past is pretty depresive. For me they are moments of my past that are very nice, but they are other that are very sad, and for me thinking good things in jail is imposible. In this moment I some how admire Meursalt, because he was very calm, and he did not care of being alone, but I think is not of admiration is just that Meursalt has no feelings and that is why he is so calm.

I think that this situation happens alot in Colombia, in Colombia their is to much violence and for me the people that works in las FARC, have no feelings and when they get caught they usually do not confessed anything and are send to jail, is not very similar to the stranger but I can used it to prove that some people that comit a crime sometimes do not care of going to jail.

The Climax

This is them most important part of the book, because we are not just going to see how Meursalt killed the arab, but we also are going to see how Meursalt start confessing the feelings towards his mother. In this two chapters we observed how Meursalt killed the Arab and how he was send to prison. This is a good point in the book because we see that Meursalt does not care that he is going to be send to jail , and when he is in jail he just does not care if he is going out or not. Also when Meursalt was asked why did he shoot him more than twice he did not anwer anything. "In silence that followed, the magistrate seemed to be getting fidgety."(pg 67). This shows that Meursalt does not want to defend himself because he is so strange that I think that he did not matter to be in jail or not. Why did Meursalt did not anwer?

What surprise me of this chapter was that Meursalt for the first time after his mother dead, express what he really feel for his mother, this was very special in the book because we can see that Meursalt have some kind of feelings and that maybe he has a soul. I thought that he will was going to feel something for his mother of for someone in the book, but this showed me that he felt something for someone and that he was not like a robot, but I think that this was a moment that he really do not know was he was feeling. Or who knows, he is so strange that I don not know what to think. Maybe in he second part of the book Meursalt is going to give us a surprise and he is going to start feeling.

Meursalt feels or not?

The question we all ask is do Meursalt love Marie or he is just having a fun time with her? Meursalt does things that show us that he really doesnt love Marie. When Marie told Meursalt if they were going to get married he anwers her that if she wanted they were going to get married, but he did not care. For me this shows that Meursalt is with Marie to pass a good time and no more. This is not bad till a certain point, because I think that you can have a fun time, but also you have to know till what point. I think that enjoy each minute is great, and sometimes you are with someone to have a good time but no more, but Meursalt gets to the point that he does not care to get married or not, he is just going to do what Marie tells him to do.

"Marie told me I had not kissed her since that morning. I t was true, and yet I had wanted to" (pg 51). This quote describes that maybe Meursalt he feels something for Marie, but what I really thing is that Meursalt is not in loved of Marie, but I think that as the story pass Meursalt is going to get in love of Marie. But let see because each time Meursalt is more strange so we have to wait because he can bring us a lot of surprises.

More about the stranger

After Meursalt mother dead, we can see each time that the main character of the story Meursalt, shows each time that he is really an stranger. I think that when youre mother dies, is a big event and you can feel some kind of sadness. In the case of Meursalt he doesnt feel much. We can see each time that Meursalt acts more like a stranger due to the fact that he doesnt care, and he does not share with nobody hsi feelings. Maybe he doesnt have with whom to share them. In the other hand we can see that Meursalt had not a women presence, but when he met Marie everything change he became a flirt, and we started to know the other side of Meursalt, conquering a women, but also we can see that Marie wants more than a simple relationship, but I think that Meursalt is so strange that when the time comes he is not going to be able to have more than a simple relationship with Marie. Each time I see that Meursalt is the stranger.