Power And The Glory Sparknotes

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is a remarkable story surrounding a “whisky priest” on the run from a lieutenant. It gives us the different views of other characters in the book such as a dentist, a mestizo, a Christian family, and an American family who is trying to prosper in Mexico. The story has an enticing plot about when the priest is going to be caught and to be killed. The book has many setting to revolve around the sub plots around. It makes me see the story as many well written short stories that perfectly ties in with the main plot in the end. I learned that people are willing to risk their lives to have their religion live on. In this case, its up to the last priest for Catholicism to continue. It’s important to know that people care a lot about their faith and religion and that they are not giving up since Catholicism is outlawed by the paramilitary group. What I didn't like about the book was how the priest’s daughter had no respected toward her father, the priest. I felt that she should have treated him with support like Coral. The story, at first, didn't have a lot of excitement going on. I t was barely going into the introduction of the conflict of the book which was a priest being a fugitive.

Part two, chapter one of the book, was a really tense moment of the book since I didn't know if someone would turn in the priest or not. The lieutenant goes in search for the priest and takes hostages if he doesn't find him. He encounters him unknowingly and no one betrays the priest when the lieutenant says to look at the person who is the priest so that he will be captured. When the lieutenant takes a hostage, no one seems to be mad at him and a man says “[it’s] all right, father. Only will you be careful,” (81). This shows that people are willing to keep their last known priest alive so that their religion can be alive as