The Power and The Glory

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Author Biographical Information
Biographical information about the author: Henry Graham Greene. Born in Berkhansted, England, on October 2, 1904. He had a rough childhood, always trying to commit suicide. Graham got into writing to clear his mind of things, says his therapist. Henry graduated from Balliol College, after studying Modern History. After College, he worked at the Nottingham Journal, met his wife, and she made sure he stayed catholic. Graham became a full time writer after he published The Man Within. After this book, his career, was in a slump after publishing back to back failures but, he fought through tough times and published an award winning novel called, The Third Man. It won 1st price at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949. Graham went on to publish many more short stories, novels and novels that became films. Graham past away in 1991, in Switzerland.

Setting: Historical Information
Historical information about the setting: Chiapas, Mexico: The setting of this novel is on down south in Mexico. On its Southwestern border, El Estado Libre y. Soberano de Chiapas, (The free and Sovereign State of Chiapas), Shares a coastline with the Pacific Ocean. Chiapas has 73,724 sq km, Chiapas comes from the ancient city Chiapan. Chiapas is one portion of the large region that was inhabited by the Mayan Indians. In 1814 census, roughly 130,000 people inhabited Chiapas. This population was made up of 105,352 Indians, 21,477 mestizos, and 3,409 Spaniards. Chiapas was and still is an ancient city. It has beautiful cites to see today

Genre
Novel of Spiritual Development

Plot Summary
Plot summary: In the beginning of the novel, the priest is running form the police because religion is not allowed in his city no more. He meets Mr. Tench who forgets why he’s at riverside. The priest is there waiting on the boat, Vera Cruz. He misses his boat because he helped a lady that was dying. The lieutenant gets a team to help him find the priest, who they are trying to arrest. The priest heads to the town of Carmen, and on the way he meets a man known simply as the mestizo. On the priest’s journey he finds that the mestizo is untrustworthy. The priest then back tracks to the city leaving the mestizo alone. He is disguise when he gets back to the city. The priest meets a beggar to take him for some illegal wine. Instead of the priest getting the whole bottle, the man drinks the whole bottle with him. The priest leaves the htel, but is caught with the bottle walking down town. The priest is taking to jail, and in there he confesses he is a priest on the run. In jail he meets the pious woman, where they argue the whole time about religion. The priest again, meets with the lieutenant face to face, but once again he goes free. The priest stays the night with the Fellows. Once he leaves he goes to an abandoned village, where he meets an Indian woman where her son has been shot and killed by The Gringo, who is also on the run from the cops. The priest takes her to the burial then leaves. The priest is ashamed, as he goes on, on his run. He meets a man named Mr. Lehr. He stays with him for a couple nights, as the priest is leaving for Las Casas. The Mestizo appears and fills them in telling them that The Gringo has been wounded from the police, and needs someone to help him repent. As always the priest goes to help, and puts his life at risk. The gringo would not confess his sins, and dies. As you would expect, the Lieutenant arrives and arrests the priest and puts him in to custody. The two men talk it out about what religion means to them. The lieutenant then takes the priest back to the Capital City for his trial. Before the priest is to be executed, the lieutenant asks Padre Jose to hear the confession from the priest. After the Priest is executed, the young boy has a dream that the priest was at his funeral and when he was laying in his coffin, the priest winks at the boy to show him that he had returned from the dead. Then when the boy wakes up the next morning, when he finds out the man is a priest he swings the door wide open to let him in.

Bold textCharacters
The Priest- protagonist, and runs from the cops. The Lieutenant- believer in the law, tries to capture the priest. The mestizo- he betrays the priest while he travels with him. Coral Fellows- Young American girl who meets the priest. The boy- A youngster in the violent land or city. Brigida- The priest' illegitimate daughter. Maria- Helps the priest escape. Padre Jose- paces his fate, and doesnt run from his religion. Mr. Tench- Lives a life of apathy and works at the dentist. The gringo- Wanted for murder. Captain Fellows- a plantation owner, who tries to stay happy during bad times. Mrs. Fellows- She is a woman who finds herself to her bedout of fear and death. MR. Lehr- The first to reach the priest when he crosses the border. Mrs. Lehr- To join her brother afterhis wife died. The woman- keeps her child aware of catholic faith. Juan- Lived his life in generosity. The Pious Woman- meets the priest in jail. The jefe- content to billiards.

Author's Style
The Authors Style in the Power and The Glory is Foreshadowing. Graham Foreshadows uneasy nature with happiness and points out most of the characters will be getting in to trouble

An example that demonstrates the style: An example of Foreshadowing would be when the Priest calls the Mestizo “Judas”, after just meeting him. Also he points out some foreshadowing by The Girl singing while she’s on a boat waiting for the Priest, not knowing why she’s happy.

Setting
The setting of The Power and The Glory is taken place in Chiapas, Mexico during the 1930’s

Themes

 * Theme One - explain your theme in detail
 * Theme Two

Symbols
•	Children

•	Alcohol

•	Christian Symbolism

Significance of the Opening/Closing Scenes
The significance of the opening scene is how Mr. Tench goes to riverside, forgets what he’s there for, and meets The Priest, who has alcohol. Mr. Tench invites him to his home. The priest leaves his boat to Vera Cruz to help the boy with his dying mother, but he comes back in just enough time to escape the city. The significance of this is how The Priest is on the run but he still helps people before worrying about himself, plus he is a priest who is drinking.

At the end of the novel, the boy has a dream about the priest, like he is at a funeral. This is significant because the priest was executed, and in the boys dream, the priest wakes up from being executed to show that he had risen from the dead. During the dream the priest gives the by a wink.

Memorable Quotes
1.	Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone: now in his corruption he had learnt…

2.	Heat stood in the room like an enemy. But he believed against the evidence of his senses in the cold empty either spaces.

3.	One Mustn’t have human affections- or rather one must level every soul as if it were ones own child.

4.	He dreamed that the priest whom they had shot was back in the house dressed in the clothes his father lent him. The Boy sat beside the bed and his mother read out a very long book about how the priest had acted in front of the Bishop.

5.	The lieutenant said in a tone of fury: “Well, you’re going to be a martyr- you’ve got that satisfaction.” “OH NO. Martyrs are not like me, they don’t think all the time- if I had drunk more brandy I shouldn’t be so afraid.”