The Power and The Glory Blog # 9

The Final Chapter

Death, is a situation that is difficult to handle by most of the peoprl. Most of the times, when people have to confront death they take different points of view depending on how it affects them. Some people, deny death, others have different reactions or ways to see this situation. This is what happens in The Power and The Glory with the death of the priest. Some see it as a good thing and others dont't want to believe it is real.
The boy, is a good example who does not want to face reality. "He dreamed that the priest whom they had shot that morning was back in the house dressed in the clothes his father had lent him and laid out stiffly for burial. The boy sat beside the bed and his mother read out of a very long book all about how the priest had acted in front of the bishop the part of Julius Caesar: there was a fish basket at her feet, and the fish were bleeding, wrapped in her handkerchief. He was very bored and very tired and somebody was hammering nails into a coffin in the passage. Suddenly the dead priest winked at him—an unmistakable flicker of the eyelid, just like that." Pg. 221. The boy is in denyal, he wants the priest back, and here we see the importance of the priest and of christianity to the boy. He is loyal to his religion and knows how the priest was a good friend to him and how he wants him back to be part of his life.