The Power And The Glory By Graham Greene
Book report by Allen Rabinovich
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding
for those who lie outside the boundaries of State Approval.
I.
One day I gave The Power and the Glory to... a native of Mexico who had lived
through the worst persecutions... She confessed that your descriptions were so
vivid, your priest so real, that she found herself praying for him at Mass. I
understand how she felt. Last year, on a trip through Mexico, I found myself
peering into mud huts, through village streets, and across impassible mountain
ranges, half-believing that I would glimpse a dim figure stumbling in the rain
on his way to the border. There is no greater ...
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saying masses. A young
lieutenant of police, and ardent revolutionist and an anti-clerical, asked his
chief to let him search for the priest who, as the authorities understood it,
was guilty of treason.
Two photographs were pasted up together in police station. One was the picture
of an American bank robber who killed several police officers in Texas; the
other was that of the priest. No one noticed the irony, including the young
lieutenant, who was more interested in arresting the priest. When the officer
received permission to look for Father Montez, the priest was already in the
village, where he came to get aboard the boat that would take him in the city
Vera Cruz and safety.
In the village he met Mr. Tench, old dentist who wanted somebody to speak
English with. But before Father Montez could get aboard the boat news came to
him that an Indian woman was dying several miles inland. True to the call, the
priest sat on the mule and went to administer the last rites to the ...
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the villagers. Before he could escape the police entered the
village. Marcia spoke with him as her husband, and his child, a little girl of
seven years old, named him as her father. In that manner he escaped. Meanwhile
the police decided to use a new tactic in searching him. As they passed through
each village the took a hostage. When a certain time passed without the
appearance of father Montez, a hostage was shot. In that way the lieutenant of
police hoped to persuade the people to betray their priest.
After the police had left the village without discovering him, Father Montez
took his mule and went on his way. He traveled northward to escape the police
and, if possible, to make his ...
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