‘In the Country of men’ by Hisham Matar elicits the status of endurance in an oppressive society. The construct of trueness and treachery is at the bosom of the novel. It values the characters that fight to keep on to the people and things they value no affair the cost. The battle between trueness and treachery is denoted in the novel by relationship between Faraj and Moosa. friends and household and Ustath Rashid and Faraj. The battle between trueness and treachery is illustrated through the bond amid Faraj and Moosa. After Faraj returns from the anguish of the radical commission. Moosa says he ‘can’t bear looking at him…The treachery in his eyes’ because Faraj ‘melted like butter’ when interrogated by the radical commission. Moosa perceives this as treachery since so many others have died including ‘the pupils closest to us’ for his cause. Moosa ‘looked up to him like an older brother’ . and ‘would give [ his ] life for him’ . but after this incident he was excessively ashamed to look at his face. Moosa says ‘his voice singes me.

This is worse than death… this is the blackest twenty-four hours of my life’ . Therefore he can non get by with Faraj’s failure ; he grapples to prolong his commitment to Faraj and shortly afterwards deports to Egypt. The Relationship between friends and household farther demonstrates the battle between trueness and treachery. When Najwa’s friend’s salma’s hubby is taken off. Najwa withdraws her friendly relationship and even instructs her boy that ‘this is a clip for walking besides the wall. ’ On one manus. this can be seen as a great treachery between the two friends. as Najawa is efficaciously abandoning Salma in her clip of greatest demand. nevertheless conversely it illustrates her undying trueness to her household.

Rather than compromising her household safety. she is willing to discontinue all interaction with the miss for that is described as ‘two lost sisters who had eventually found each other’ . Ustath Rashid’s does non bewray his friend Faraj at any cost. Ustath Rashid refuses to implicate his friend Faraj as the conceiver and the leader of the ‘resistance group’ . The ‘Democracy Now’ book Suleiman rescues from the fire was ab initio gifted to Faraj by Ustath Rashid. It is inscribed ‘To my ageless friend and comrade…With my deathless loyalty’ and therefore Rashid keeps his word as this friendly relationship means more than his ain life to him. Therefore when he is publicly interrogated before the executing. Rashid lies to protect Faraj. salvaging his life even when he can non salvage his. cognizing there is a household out at that place who will be losing a hubby.