In this three chapters a lot of things happen. He arrives to a town where he settles with Mr Lehr and Miss Lehr. They are brothers and they recive him in a really good attitude knowing he is a priest, but they are not catholic. '' Oh, they won't bother me. But you had better be careful. You know offcourse, that it's against the law.''(164) This impresses me because they wont bother them but they are still risking themselves because something could happen. '' We don't hold with your Church, father. Too much luxury, it seems to me, while people starve.''(162) This at first impresses me but further on it is also shown that the leiutenant says the same thing so that is a feeling that people have towards our religion. The priest goes with Mr Lehr to take a bath and they start talking about church and religion and the priest tries to bring hium to his religion.
It impresses me that the people of the village are like the people has been during the whole book, everytime they see a priest they do anything to hear a mass or get their babies batized because they haven't seen a priest in years. '' There are so many of us father...there are many children to be baptized. There has not been a priest for three years''(166) I don't like the way he takes money out of them, I know he needed money but at the same time those people were very poor and he was doing something so people would get closer to God thats his job, not to take money out of poor people. After this, he starts talking to a man called Pedro, he offers him whiskey and they start talking about a lot of things and how he wanted to get to Las Casas. Later he says to him ''Drunkennes, adultery, uncleannes: he sat there tasting the brandy all the while, sitting on a rocking chair in a horse-box, not looking at the face of the one who knelt at his side.''(171) He does not care about anything anymore he does all the things mention before and he does not care whch I think that he is not a good priest anymore. ''Mortal sin...danger...self-control, as if those words meant anything at all.''(172)
Later, he starts talking with Mr Lehr and he is going to go and do the mass to the poeple in the village and he invites her'' I've sometimies wished that I could go tio church...Mr lehr wouldn't like it. He's very strict.''(175) I think it is weird the way that catholic religion is prohibided but still a lot of people practice it in secret and help themselves between each other, but it is also weird the way that Mr lehr acts and the interest toward the prohibed religion, which it makes sense because humans have the interest of things that are prohibed. Then the man that walked with him and was his companion for some time with the mule and then got sick he appeared. He was looking for the priest and told him there was a man that was really sick and that needded his help. '' The yankee, the one the police wanted... he robbed a bank..''(278) The priest decided to help him because I guess that something came to him and it was a way to get the way he wanted and with someone with him but he never trusted him because police knew that this man was with the priest before so it could be a tramp. '' Why do you think me such a fool? I know why you've come. You're the only one they've got who can recognize me...''(178) They got to the place where the yankee was, and the priest started to suspect that he was in some kind of tramp. He went in to se the Yankee for his confession but he was really mad. '' That bastard..what sort of a confession is this? I make a five hours' journey...and all I get out of you are evil words.''(187) Then he discovered that he was really in a tram. The leiutenant appeared and then he was reaslly confused because he remembered he had seen the priest before a couple of times and he confessed him that he lied. They started talking and in a way I think they started to meat things about the other. ''There are good priest and bad priests. It is just I am a bad priest.''(191) It is really good for him to accept that he was a bad priest because he made many sins, but in a way I think he was a good priest because he keept his reaigion until the end. The lieutenant talked to the priest and explained to him why they are doing all the do. ''The church was poor , the priest was poor, therefore everyone should sell all and give to the church...You're danger. That's why we kill you. I have nothing against you understand, as a man''(193) This impresses me because it is really weird him saying that so it confuses me , they are doing it for their people, for them being abused by the church in a way. They kept talking and each one showd they kind way. The lieutenant started blaming the priest for killing to inocent men because he did not want that, and the priest started telling him why thing became that way and why he became corrupt. They had a connection.
