Is incredible how this book gets better every time one opens it to read. There is more action, adventure and information that leaves the reader amazed. During these twenty pages, we notice that Kapuscinski is a man who fears nothing. Where there is a conflict or any sort of impacting news he will always be there. We can see this because Ryszard starts to explain that one of his friends in Mexico, told him that there was going to be some sort of conflict in Honduras concerning El Salvador, so Ryszard Kapuscinski decides to head over to Tegucigalpa (Honduras) and be present when the battle begins. "Luis Suarez said there was going to be a war, and I believed whatever Luis said. We were staying together in Mexico. Luis was giving me a lesson in Latin America: what it is and how to understand it. he could foresee many events. In his time he had predicted the fall of Goulart in Brazil, the fall of Bosch in the Dominican Republic and of Jimenez in Venezuela. Long before the return of Perón he believed that the old caudillo would again become president of Argentina; he foretold the sudden death of the Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier at a time when everybody said Papa Doc had many years left (The Soccer War, Chapter 3, pg. 157)." As we see, this man was a very close friend to Kapuscinski and he believed everything he said. Later on the author says that he takes a plane and arrives at Tegucigalpa, Honduras the next day.
The connection that came to mind was comparing Ryszard with the famous 'Crocodile Hunter'. Both men always look for adventure, but in the case of the 'Crock Hunter' Steve Irwin his passion for adventure led him to death. When you read this book, you watch as the narrator is always looking how to get into trouble and even better getting out of it. Steve Irwin was exactly the same way. You'd always see him jumping into a river full of dangerous animals (crocodiles his favorite) and swimming as fast as he could to capture them or even to wrestle with. "As the empty garbage can clattered down the hill, more and more windows kept opening as it passed with plaintive, insistent whispers: 'Silencio! Silencio!' But there was no way to stop the metal monster, it was like something possessed, banging against the cobblestones, smashing into lamp-posts, thundering and booming. I lay on the pavement, hugging it, frightened, sweating. I was afraid that someone would open fire in my direction. I had committed an act of treason: the enemy, unable to fin the city in this darkness and silence, could now locate it by the racket of the garbage can (The Soccer War, Chapter 3, pg. 164)." It gives the reader goose bumps just to think that someone wood get into danger just to publish a good story on the news.
The connection that came to mind was comparing Ryszard with the famous 'Crocodile Hunter'. Both men always look for adventure, but in the case of the 'Crock Hunter' Steve Irwin his passion for adventure led him to death. When you read this book, you watch as the narrator is always looking how to get into trouble and even better getting out of it. Steve Irwin was exactly the same way. You'd always see him jumping into a river full of dangerous animals (crocodiles his favorite) and swimming as fast as he could to capture them or even to wrestle with. "As the empty garbage can clattered down the hill, more and more windows kept opening as it passed with plaintive, insistent whispers: 'Silencio! Silencio!' But there was no way to stop the metal monster, it was like something possessed, banging against the cobblestones, smashing into lamp-posts, thundering and booming. I lay on the pavement, hugging it, frightened, sweating. I was afraid that someone would open fire in my direction. I had committed an act of treason: the enemy, unable to fin the city in this darkness and silence, could now locate it by the racket of the garbage can (The Soccer War, Chapter 3, pg. 164)." It gives the reader goose bumps just to think that someone wood get into danger just to publish a good story on the news.
Some questions can be answered up until now. We know that Kapuscinski does not get shot, but does injure himself trying to return to his hotel in Honduras. There is also the answer to what problem is he going to get himself into. One notices that he decides to head over to Honduras and watch the war for himself and be the first foreign reporter to catch the story. Basically, the reader sees that he gets into this problem and now has to find a way out before getting killed.
- What will happen with the war on Honduras?
- Will the United States help the Honduran government?
- Is Kapuscinski going to stay during the war?
- Does the United Nations punish El Salvador for its acts?
- Doesn't Kapuscinski have family that worries about him?
- Stifling: To crush or end by force.
- Parquet: A floor composed of short strips or blocks of wood forming a pattern, sometimes using other materials.
- Caprice: A sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or weather.
- Spindlelegged: Long, thin legs.
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