Lemonade. I watched as the priest made an empty, false claim, and sprinted down the street. I saw the Red Shirts catch him and hand him over to be thrown in jail. But throughout all of the chaos, no one noticed his true identity! Luck was with the whiskey priest once again.
In jail, the priest again spoke in his educated, insightful manner, and gave up his identity to the inmates. None seemed interested in his bounty, but rather in his story. Prisoners valued a new friend over seven hundred pesos? I found that quite odd. Also, the priest is constantly trying to escape his fate of being discovered, but almost welcomes the thought of giving himself up and dying! He has wavered between fear and regret all throughout his journey, and is never decisive in his actions.
Does the priest truly want to be discovered, so the hostages and others suffering due to his continued existence would have peace? Or does he still have the fight in him to escape once more? The priest is getting harder and harder to read. He second-guesses everything that he does! To only know what goes on inside his head...
If you knew what was going on inside his head, you might regret ever wanting to know. Moving on, I must admit I'm a bit curious as to why you didn't talk about the pious woman who was among the prisoners. She did have some influence on the story line taking place in the prison.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is very interesting how the prisoners did not reveal the priest's identity. It may have just been the same reasoning as the mestizo's, but it seemed more sympathetic and understanding that that.
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