The Soccer War Blog #1

The Stranger in the Soccer War

"Ahmed Ben Bella, the president of Algeria, was overthrown on June 16, 1965. It happened during the night-time changing of guard, just after two o'clock in the morning." Pg 95

With the overthrow of the president Ben Bella in Algeria, this book can be compared to The Stranger. With the first line of the book we can see that Ben Bella is a stranger to his country, to Algeria. After the war, the president becomes a stranger to most of the situations,the country's misery and conflicts are out of his hands and people are discontent with the president they have. Although the situations are not the best and Algeria is a hard country to govern Ben Bella could have taken messures to improve the county's situation. Mersault and Ben Bella have the same "problem" they're both strangers to something and this causes them to end in situations they have never wished for. Mersault is a stranger to life such as Ben Bella is a stranger to his country.