The Foreign Correspondent: Part 2

This book is getting more and more confusing. Carlo is now traveling throughout Europe and is reporting for a British newspaper. He has befriended the Captain Ferrera but had to flee from Spain because the fascists were winning and would soon take the country over. Carlo asked Captain Ferrera where he was going to go but Captain Ferrera was very paranoid about that because he did not want any one to know so he mentioned that he was going to France. I think that this may be a jumping off point for a normal plot but I am unsure. It is now established that Carlo is the main character and the author is following him for the main part with a few paragraphs following an underground anti-fascist newspaper. The author develops Carlo's character through thoughts, author's comments and dialogue between himself and other characters. So far there has been no obvious theme that has developed other than maybe "be the change that you want to see in the world" because he is going against the fascist Italian government and Nazi Germany. To this point i would give the book around two to two and a half stars out of five because it is a really confusing book so far and there has yet to be a strong plot. Although the book the book is far from over this still bugs me. But even though I am bugged by this book, I am still intrigued to find out what happens to the book and how the plot develops.