“Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill” (P.140) With this citation we can absolutely understand how the priest’s hope hasn’t been vanished, since he is still aware of being alive. From the beginning we have seen how this character lives his life without wondering what’s wrong or right, although at this time of the novel he is now realizing his true reality. While this character is involved with other individuals, he is still playing a role of a stranger to society, since he is still not identified as the priest. As we could read, he is caught and prejudiced because of having alcohol, but still he is an invisible character for the ones who want to see him as the priest. What this quote tries to make us consider in this chapter is to start realizing that the character’s hope will be killed really soon maybe by him or by another stranger.
After he leaves jail, he finds himself alone without food, a person, nor light; “There was just nothing, nothing at all”( 141) This scene is another clue about the protagonist’s destiny, since his life is also without anything, full of dark holes and fears. Although alcohol has somehow save his life till this moment, an end or a death will come in a short period of time. If this priest would at least keep and defend his religious beliefs, maybe he will have a hope thinking in God, but since he is completely ignoring his beliefs and hiding his own identity, what would then be the reason to continue having hope within his present life?
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