The Power & The Glory

When I first started reading the book, I was a little confused because of all that it was stating and all the characters, but when I kept reading on, I got to organize my self, but there where various pages I had to read all over again for me to be able to start undestanding what was going on. What I have read of The Power and the Glory talks basically of the Mexican revolution and how the Catholic church gets to play a major roll in this time period. This was because during this revolution, all the Mexicans where traying to expulse all the religious people of the country. Whe can get to that conclusion because we are able to see that during the reading of this novel, you can see that there are priest which had to leave the country or even hide. A perfect example is that this new stranger that we get to know, from who we get a lot of questions is a priest who is traying to hide, to avoid the law. Even though he is traying yo avoid all this, he doesnt manage to d this since he will always have some kind of contact with the law. One example is the relationship he establish with Captain Fellows, which is one of the persons who supports the revolution. This is a quote that give us an idea of the reklationship they have and that the captain knows that he might get busted and then condemend, but he does this because his doughter wants to help this stranger." 'I'm braking the law enough as it is,' Captain Fellows said (Pg. 38). One thing that the book makes you think s the critics that people make, the way thath people talk from each other without knowing the real thing. For example, we have read that people say thath there is a priest who has a drinking problem and they really do not know the true reasons behind this problem. He might not drink because he loves to, but because he might be traying to drown painfull thoughts of his past wiht the boose. This drinking might be a way of forgetting that his life is in danger and that on any time, he might get killed.
This few chapters can be connected to the Colombian history. You can connected it with the rivalries that where between "liberales'' and ''conservadores''. During the " Periodo Conservador", all the ''liberales'' where persecuted and killed, so they had to change they'r names and residence because they had to hide from the goverment itself because they where being killed. I believe thath this time in Colombia's history can compare to The Power and The Glory because the same way that the priest's had to run away and hide, the same happened to the "Liberales'' in Colombia, and both where because of a change in goberment.

A question that I find fundamental is. What is really hiding the stranger?