The Power and the Glory post #5

The mysterious whisky priest was in a safe town earlier he was staying with Mr. Lehr and his sister he gave a mass and a baptism in order to get to Las Casas to be safe. However when he is about to leave the mestizo  a filthy rotten liar trying to get money for handing the priest over to the police, approaches him and tells him that the gringo was dying and wanted to confess. Instead of going to Las Casas he goes into the hills with the mestizo against his better judgement, he even told the mestizo he doesn't trust him yet he still goes to the gringo. When he gets their the gringo says he doesn't want to confess which thoroughly confused the priest for a moment because the mestizo said he wanted prayer. Finally he put two and two together and he realized that this was a trap, yet he still refused a weapon when offered one by the weak gringo. The odd thing is even though he refused the weapon he was still a coward; he was constantly stalling the lieutenant trying to live longer. Interestingly enough the lieutenant put up with his stalling and used most of what the priest said against him, telling him how he has ruined peoples lives which I believe he is doing to justify the act of killing him.

The Power and the Glory post #4

      The lieutenant seems to have a side to him that is odd, as I have seen him around he seems to be either oblivious or very compassionate. When the lieutenant heard about the priest on the run he chose to be the one to go after him which I found curious because he does not much seem like the type that would be overly thorough in a search for a priest. I believe the lieutenant did not show nearly as much interest in the case when he first got it than he should have. The way he goes about seems to be methodical but not necessarily the most efficient way to catch the priest. I think he may be purposely trying to let him go to get him to cross the border so it is no longer his responsibility and the priest would be safe. For example, the other day, I observed the lieutenant go through all the men in a village in search for the priest, and when all evidence pointed to the fact that he was lying and was actually the priest he moved on in the line. Now some people raise the question "Why is he taking hostages and killing them?" and I believe as I said previously that he is trying to drive him out of the state. The best way to do that is to try and show him what he is causing, to guilt him out of the state. In addition if the lieutenant was to be found helping a priest escape the law he would loose his job and likely be executed; taking hostages is a good way to warn the priest and still have it good with the state.
        Another example of his mercy to him is when he is in prison for having brandy, the lieutenant recognizes him but does not point out the fact that he is, in fact the whisky priest. In addition I observed him giving the priest five pesos in order to bail him out of prison, I do not believe that the lieutenant, after all I have seen of his personality, would give 5 pesos to a random prisoner who had brandy. Furthermore the half-life that he is housing knows the priest, I do not believe that the half-life would just not turn him in as I observed earlier, I thing that the lieutenant is paying the half-life to keep it quiet therefor he is paying more like 700 pesos to the man just to keep this priest alive. I do not think that the lieutenant is a dangerous man I think he is compassionate and wants to help out the priest in a way that would not make him loose his job.

The Power and the Glory post #3

In my travels today I observed a man who was missing all of his teeth but two yellow upper canines, he was a half-life obviously in need of money. He had been approached by the whisky priest who asked him if he was able to get a boat in order to cross the river to get to Carmen. He told the priest that there is no way to get across but to swim. However as the priest was leaving he seemed thoughtful for a moment, then started calling after the priest to wait up for him. It must have been very important to him because when the priest did not stop or turn around he jumped in and chased after him. The half-life claims that he about to head to Carmen for business and that it is better to travel in company, however when he said it I sensed a hint of deception in his voice. Judging by his words and actions I think he knows more than he is expressing to the priest, this extra knowledge is hinted at when he is calling the pries "senor" the priest asks him why he calls him that and he says that he is able to tell he is a man of education. I can't be positive but I think the priest also caught on to the fact that this man may know more than he should, he started eyeing the half-life rather suspiciously. Then to build the suspicion the half-life says accusingly "You don't trust me. Just because I am a man who likes to do a good turn to strangers, because I try to be a Christian, you don't trust me." Everybody knows that when one starts getting defensive for no reason he is hiding something, the priest didn't say anything, let alone anything that would trigger that reaction that severe. The second mistake in saying that is he states that he was only going along to help a stranger, to be a good Christian whereas earlier he said that he wanted to go to Carmen on business, when stories don't line up it is an obvious sign that neither of the alibis are true. To top off the suspicion the priest put him on the mule and sent it in the direction of Carmen  while he went  a different way, when he did this the half-life was furious he realizes he lost seven hundred pesos.

The Power and Glory post #2

      There are many things a man does not see here in Mexico any more, one of the major ones being happiness. This is a sad poor nation, sick and tired of being sick and tired, fed up. Captain Fellows though subject to poverty and sickness, is concerned by none of this. Unlike most he is a joyful man he does not complain about what he doesn't have, instead he is glad for what he does have, not showing any contempt. As he is chugging down the river in his small ratty canoes he sings loudly making it up as he goes, singing of good things, happily singing.
      Captain Fellows is joyous despite all reasons he may have to be cross; he is poor, lives in a bungalow on the banks of a river, his face is marred and sunburned. He does not take anything for granted anything that he has; he gets along with nature like they are one together. The world is his playground, he is always at home no matter where he is at. Life had seemed to treat him well, the only place he'd be happier at would be in France even though he is living in a poverty stricken country living on a banana plantation.

The Power and the Glory post #1

      It was strange occurrence, there was a girl who I would say was about thirteen years old but clearly had a passion for those who are weak and hurting. As she went about her business she was confronted by an officer of the law who from what I could pick up was looking for a priest who had managed to escape their wrath. When she met up with her father she took him to their barn and showed him that the priest was in fact hiding in their barn. The priest asks the girls father who goes by "Mr. Fellows" for some brandy, he refuses and refuses to give him anything, it was quite surprising considering Mr. Fellows is generally a jolly man.

      The girl, Fellows' daughter, is kind and compassionate, even though her father refuses the priest anything. Once he has gone to bed the girl sneaks into the kitchen to get some food for the stranger. When she brings him his food she seemed enthralled by his stories, she also seemed very concerned for him considering his situation. It was curious she mentions at one point that she does not believe in a God however she is inclined to feed him and feels bad for him breaking down those walls of religion so many people have. Likewise after the girl told that to the priest he was still able to get along with her and crack jokes and such, though the beer may play into that he still seems like quite a character not like the type the law would want dead.

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