Part 2 Chapter 1 (59-102)

Part two talks all the time of the priest. It starts talking about a man being in a mule and getting to a place he has not been in a really long time. What is first noticed is that this person is scaping from the police so it immediately gives us the idea that it is the whisky priest or the gringo. Some people receive him really well but with fear. ´´They are taking hostages now- from all villages where they think you’ve been. And if people don’t tell…somebody is shot… and then they take another hostage…’’(63) I think this is amazing the way that they want to excecute religion that they get to the point to look for this priest everywhere until they find him but in the same time killing a lot of people. People start discussing if they receive him or not because they could be risking their lives, but then they decide they will receive him. He is taken to Maria’s house, she is the one that accept’s him in her home and takes the risk. ‘’And Brigitta… is she ….well?’’(65) At first I thought this really suspicious because he asked a lot about her and Maria starts questioning him of why he did not recognize her and that she was standing there with everyone. She comes to him and he starts talking to her with some love and a nice way so that’s when I thought it was her daughter. At first I was not sure if that was the same priest- whiskey pries- or Padre Jose with that but my because I am getting confused with them but my doubts were cleared when Maria offered him a brandy. ‘’Tightening his grip upon the brandy bottle…’’(66) It’s weird the way that there are many priests that don’t keep the church rules or beliefs. This priest was Marias lover and that’s when they had Brigitta, but what impresses me the most is ‘’She was proud of having been the priest’s woman’’(68) That night passes and the next day , really early, he gives a mass to that people. When he is giving mass someone goes in there and tells him that the police are coming. He acts in a really natural way and prefers to finish the mas while the first thing that I would of done was run away. He does not have enough time to escape and Maria gives him something to eat so the breath of wine goes away. The lieutenant arrives, ‘’They filed sulley up and he questioned them, What’s your name? What do you do? Married? Which is your wife? Have you heard of this priest?’’(75) In my opinion they all act really natural and hide the lie. Marie tells to the lieutenant that that man (the priest) is his husband so they don’t suspect of him. He starts treathing them and telling them that if they don’t tell him anything they will take someone away. What I saw is they defend themselves a lot between them and they risk their life for someone only because they are against the things that were happening in the country in that moment. What I think that is good is that Marie knows that the priest is sinful and is not the perfect priest as the others think as she says, shes not that ignorant. Finally the lieutenant leaves and takes some kid called Miguel with him. No one has any reaction about it and he just leaves with him mule. Before that he talks to his daughter. ‘’ Everyone has a father… who works… you’re a priest’’(81) I don’t know if with this they have such a normal reaction of priest having daughters and sleeping with women or she acts natural because it’s her father. He leaves and wants to go to Carmen. In the way a man follows him and tells him it’s better going with company. The priest does not trust him at all, and all the time he is really trustful with him and tells him he knows that he is the priest but he wont give him away. ‘’ Won’t you say a prayer, father, before sleep?.. Why do you call me that?’’(90) They keep being a long way together, they stop to rest and the mestizo gets really sick. Finally he accepts to him he is a priest and they get closer and he trusts more in him. ‘’ The path divided- one way Carmen, the other to the west.’’(102) He separated their ways so that he could get to Carmen and get helped because of telling he saw the priest, and he went another path also for his security. What impresses me at the end is that I thought that he really wanted to help the priest and did not want the money but at the end of this chapter what is said is ‘’ Of course , he had every reason to be angry: he had lost seven hundred pesos.’’(103) I think this chapter was long, but at the same time it was good because it gives more detailed information about the priest, his personal life, and what he feels.