THE SUFFERING OF THE ALGERIAN PEOPLE UNDER FRENCH COLONIALISM WRITTEN BY "MOHAMED DEEB""A HISTORICAL READING THROUGH THE NOVEL "THE BIG HOUSE"

Abstract

The Arab Maghreb countries in general, and Algeria in particular, suffered from the scourge
of colonialism, as the French colonizer dared in an attempt to change the features of Algeria
and the people in various respects, and tried to obliterate the national identity by various
means.
Before this attack, the sons of Algeria rushed to defend their homeland. Some of them carried
arms and others used their pens in writing to show the world the injustice and oppression of
the colonizer. Between our hands, a trilogy novel that records the state of the Algerian people
during the colonial stage. It was written in French and translated into Arabic by the Algerian
writer Mohamed Deeb. This trilogy is consisting of three novels. The researchers addressed
the first novel "that is called the Big House, and reviewed the situation of the Algerian people
under the French colonial in general. It gives us plenty of information about the conditions of
the Algerian people under French colonialism. In that period, the characters and the places
where the events take place are vivid examples of the Algerian people where we can touch
the following situation: a) economic situation throughout talking about hunger and poverty,
b) the social conditions that talked about the relations between the residents of Sbeitar's
House and the composition of the Algerian society.
c) the educational situation by talking about the school, and d) the political issues that deal
with freedom and the colonial tracking down for the resistance. In addition, we can touch
the reality and suffering of the childhood and woman, so the child and his mother constitute
the core focus in this novel, they act as a general case of the Algerian people under French
colonialism.