The Bystanders

The fourth chapter starts talking about Mr Tench and him writting a letter to him mom. I thinks is amazing the way Mr Tench let himself out of the world completly when he went to live to Mexico...'' But she had probably forgotten his handwritting by this time''(46) This quote also gives us and idea that he has a bad relationship with his mom and she does not now he is still alive. As I said before in a blog, Mr Tench can't leave Mexico because of the peso problem. ''He had meant to leave six years ago, but the peso dropped with a revolution, and so he had come south.''(46) Then it changes to a completly diffrent scene. As I said before, people in this book avoid religion, do not belive in it anymore or they are just corrupt. It starts talking about Padre Jose being in the cementary, which makes me confuses because I am not sure Padre Jose is the same as the whiskey priest. When Padre Jose was in the cementary , there was a family at the same time buring a child, and they asked him to give a prayer but he rejected. “Leave me alone” He said. “I´m unworthy. Can´t you see?-I am a coward”(P.49) Then after this there is a mom reading the Bible to his kids. They ask her Mother” the child said, “do you believe there´s a God?” The question scared Mrs.Fellows.”(53) This is what I've been saying before that impresses me the reaction of people towards religion. There is also another part that impresses me that is the lieutanant having permission to kill a priest. This is and example of what I gave in the video. Christian people and proests where being killed in Turkey because of their religion. He is stopped by a kid and this kid attacks him because he thinks that he is a gringo and I could see it as he thought he was the priest. It also impresses me the way that after the kid throws a bottle the lieuranant starts giving him lessons that he should not because he is really small.. He gives him his gun and tells him is okay if he holds it. In my opinion this is really bad because he is just a kid and they are giving him the impression that carrying a gun a killing is really normal and natural.