BIZARRE PRIEST´S MOOD REVOLUTION

The Priest has reflected various attitudes towards life and his own reality. In this pages we can get a little bit perplexed with his continuous changes of the importance of money in his life. When he arrives to another village, the priest stays with MrLehr and his sister, Miss Lehr, two German-American Protestants living in Mexico.

Villagers from this town ask him to say mass and baptize many young individuals. At first he starts realizing about his present reality; “Well-two pesos is the usual charge” He thought I must hire two mules and a guide. It will cost me fifty pesos to reach Las Casas. Five pesos for the Mass. that I left forty-five”(P.167). From this passage we can definitely understand his real awareness about money and its importance to continue escaping from persecution. We as audience may understand this analysis from the character, since we don’t still want him to be displaced from the novel.

After the villagers make him consider about their poverty and lack of money to pay for the baptisms, the priest reconsiders his past analysis and decides to charge them less money. Once he leaves town he decides to donate all his money to a schoolmaster ; “He’s not a bad man, he does his best, and I shan´t need money again, shall I?”(P.182).

At first we understand his attentiveness about keeping money for his life, then we agree about he being aware about all villagers poverty, but why would he suddenly ignore his past consciousness towards money? If this protagonist changes his perceptions and meanings without really caring about them, would he suddenly ignore his own reality? Throughout all the book the priest is completely aware about his risks, but with the past analysis about his moods being changed we would now be aware that maybe he will just disregard his permanent escape from government.