The second chapter took me a little to understand it well. We talked about it in class and it was easier to understand. This second chapter, starts talking about a completly diffrent thing as the one before. There are some lieutenant and other people talking about someone called James Calver. ''Wanted in the United States for bank robbery and homocide: a tough uneven face taken at two angles: description circulated to every station in Central America''(21) First I was confused, I thought that thi man was the stranger and that was why he came to Mexico“He tried to get away last week to Vera Cruz... Oh, they missed him, of course. It was just luck the he didn’t catch the boat. He can pass as a gringo. He spent six years at some American seminary.” (22) This description completly matched with the stranger and what he was doing. Later talking in the class it turned out to be Mr Tench who went to mexico and changed his identify from a priest to a fake dentist. There is a part that I think it is really funny because that happens in many parts of the world. '' They all look alike to me''(22) what the lieutenant is saying here in this part is that he may not distinguish the ''gringo'' it he gets to their town because they are all the same. Thatis really curious because that happens to many people that see all colombians the same , all mexicans, all asian, chinese etc. Later, the lieutenant though '' it infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in loving and merciful God''(24) As I said in the blog before this one, I think that these people are thinking this way becasue they have losen hope and they are not living in such a good economical of political situation. In the same time, I think that if he does not feel this way, which I later kept reading and it seems as he does't I think is amazing how he lowers Gods importance. ''Altogether they havd shot abput five priests- two or three had escaped.''(25)
It changes from this to a family. Its a women with her husband and kids. They start talking about ''Padre Jose or Padre whisky'' and the mother gets really furious because as it seems he is Mr Tench and he was a really bad example of a priest. '' About a poor woman who took to him her son to be baptized. She wanted him called Pedro- but he was drunk that he took no notice at all and baptized the boy Brigitta''(28) Later they starttalking about the priest and the way he was not a priest anymore and took the path to sins and doing everything he wanted. He was a wife or women calling him to bed and that is not acceptable in priests.
