Book Summary: The Power And The Glory

Do you ever sit down and wonder what if people hunted down priests because the society was impoverished, well in the book The Power and The Glory it portrays just that. The author’s idea that intrigued me the most is that the priest has lost his morals, and is at the same time struggling with a foe hunting him down because the way society is impoverished. When I started reading this book I said to myself , “ This is going to be another boring book,” and then I realized when I was near the end of the book that this was far from boring, and that you needed to add a bit of your own imagination to the story to make it entertaining. One last thing this book didn't do is portray Mexico as the stereotypical Mexico we see on T.V. and on social media
The main characters of the story that stood out to me and played a life or death role in the Whiskey Priest’s fate were The Lieutenant, The Mestizo, and Padre Jose. The Whiskey priest was a priest that had lost his morals as a priest, had pride, and fathered a daughter, throughout the story he is repeatedly saying that as a priest he has done wrong, is a horrible priest, and that he deserves whatever punishment he gets. The Lieutenant was the main antagonist and would not stop until he caught the priest, and he said that he was after the priest because the catholic church stole money from the common people, but it was pretty obvious that he had a hatred for the priest from something in the past even though the book didn't state it. The Mestizo was an important character that the priest met during his journey, and the mestizo drastically changed the fate of the priest because he technically had the choice whether the priest would’ve lived or died. Padre José was the only other priest in the story, he abandoned his faith instead of