The strangers prayer at the end of the chapter: ‚let me be caught‘ He accidentally leaves his book (breviary = prayer book) at Mr Tench’s house, which is looking like a cheap love story but is Latin. The priest feels unworthy, he has a bitter distaste for himself. ‘He was unworthy of what he carried’ (p.19) (➔ GOD) It’s his duty to stay and care for the people who need him. God says through priest I CAN do good, when provoked by T’s ‘she’s dead anyways’. It’s foreshadowing that P won’t be able to flee. He knows that he’s meant to miss the boat. P.16: ‘He got up as though unwillingly he had been summoned (berufen…by god!) to an occasion he couldn’t pass by.’ The kid KNOWS, that he can trust a priest, the priest will help him. Tench is a ‘new’ doctor.Ī boy comes to Mr Tench’s house looking for a doctor, the stranger follows him reluctantly (widerstrebend), coz he actually wants to take the boat.īut the kid knows that it’s too late for a doc, he wants a priest. Mr Tench takes the stranger to his home coz he got some alcohol, they drink ‚the doctors‘ brandy. The priest gives an impression of an alcoholic (p.9), learnt English in the US (p.10)). T tries to defend himself ➔ T touched by priest, he suddenly feels trapped by his conscience. Priest: ‘She’s very young’ ➔ moral condemnation. He meets a stranger ➔ misterious man coming out of nowhere, when T says ‘ My God, a pretty one ’ T meets a man who doesn’t greet him: ‘it wasn’t like UK’ ➔ UK better, Mexicans partly uncivilized and oppressive (unterdrückend) ➔ beer & ex-church) ➔ in order to survive in that world, you need pain killers. He goes to the river coz a boat (exultant (erheiternd) piping of it = only positive thing in that paragraph) arrived and he wants to fill up his ether cylinder.

Mr Tench wants to get away from Mexico, he thinks it’s an awful place. He has two kids whom he doesn’t remember very well, one is dead (p.14). Tench is a dentist from England (p.1) but is in Mexico for 15 years by now (p.14). In this environment, power and glory are reduced to nothing: ex - president, ex - general, ex - human being. Story playing in Mexico, Tabasco (p.1), in a shabby city (many vultures merciless sky (p.9))… very negative! Even feeling of rebellion is faint, it’s just too hot. The port ➔ place where you can get in, but also get out. something sinister is out there to get somebody (prey = Beute), it is successful and powerful. Th’ inclosure narrowed, the sagacious (strong) power of hounds and death drew nearer every hour. What does the author suggest about the meaning of life? If he’s convincing and wrong (subjectively convincing), he’s the antagonist. If the lieutnant is convincing and right (objectively convincing), he’s the protagonist. The protagonist is the church, and the antagonist is the state.

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