The main argument in the beginning of The Wretched of the Earth is that decolonization is always a violent situation. When there is a total change in the social structure to a society it becomes a main goal of the native to make a change. Decolonization is a meeting of two opposite forces, the native and the settler, which usually ends up at in some kind of war. According to Fanon, in order for a group that has been decolonized to make a successful change the natives need to take action instead of being observers and should utilize all means including violence. The problem starts with the obvious large division of zones in the colonial world. The zone of the settlers includes strongly built home and building, brightly lit and neat areas, well
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The French came into Algiers and took over. The division of zones were the French settlers and the Algerian natives. The French live in nice and clean areas as the Algerians are pushed into the “Casbah”. The Casbah is the citadel of Algiers in Algeria and the tradition quarter clustered around it. This was a safe place for the FLN to plan and execute attacks against the French citizens and law enforcement who were there at the time. We see throughout the movie that when a crime has been done all the French point at yell at the one Algerian man around and blame him for what has happened, yelling “Dirty Arab! It was the Arab!” The Algerian’s don’t have much say in anything, it is all up to the French military. If a French man says an Algerian committed some kind of crime there were no questions asked and the man would be arrested. The French military are depicted as frequently using torture, intimidation, and murder to get information out of captured criminals. The FLN reacts by using terrorism, especially bombings, to intimidate the French. As the FLN formed and started taking action, it became the French paratrooper’s duty to capture or assassinate them. The goal was to hunt down the FLN and stop them. Although they ended up killing the commander of the FLN and his main guy, El-hadi Jafar and Ali la Pointe, the nationalists did not give up. The movie ends with Algerian demonstrations and riots showing that even though the French won the Battle of Algiers they ended up losing the Algerian
The French came into Algiers and took over. The division of zones were the French settlers and the Algerian natives. The French live in nice and clean areas as the Algerians are pushed into the “Casbah”. The Casbah is the citadel of Algiers in Algeria and the tradition quarter clustered around it. This was a safe place for the FLN to plan and execute attacks against the French citizens and law enforcement who were there at the time. We see throughout the movie that when a crime has been done all the French point at yell at the one Algerian man around and blame him for what has happened, yelling “Dirty Arab! It was the Arab!” The Algerian’s don’t have much say in anything, it is all up to the French military. If a French man says an Algerian committed some kind of crime there were no questions asked and the man would be arrested. The French military are depicted as frequently using torture, intimidation, and murder to get information out of captured criminals. The FLN reacts by using terrorism, especially bombings, to intimidate the French. As the FLN formed and started taking action, it became the French paratrooper’s duty to capture or assassinate them. The goal was to hunt down the FLN and stop them. Although they ended up killing the commander of the FLN and his main guy, El-hadi Jafar and Ali la Pointe, the nationalists did not give up. The movie ends with Algerian demonstrations and riots showing that even though the French won the Battle of Algiers they ended up losing the Algerian