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The principal characters of "The Power and the Glory" all have antecedents in "The Lawless Roads", mostly as people Greene encountered directly or, in the most important instance, a legendary character that people told him about, a certain "whisky priest", a fugitive who, as Greene writes in "The Lawless Roads", "existed for ten years in the forest and swamps, venturing out only at night". |
Another of Greene's inspirations for his main character was the Jesuit priest Miguel Pro, who performed his priestly functions as an underground priest in Tabasco and was executed without trial in 1927 on false charges. |
In 1983, Greene said that he first started to become a Christian in Tabasco, where the fidelity of the peasants "assumed such proportions that I couldn't help being profoundly moved." |
Despite having visited Mexico and published an account of his travels, in the novel Greene was not meticulous about Tabasco's geography. |
In "The Power and the Glory", he identified the region's northern border as the U.S. and its southern border as the sea, when Tabasco's northern border is actually the Bay of Campeche and its southern border is Chiapas to the south. |
The Priest: The unnamed main character in the novel, the priest is on the run from the authorities, who will kill him if they catch him. |
A "whisky priest," and not the finest example of his profession, he is an alcoholic who has also fathered a child. |
In his younger days he was smug and self-satisfied. |
Now as a fugitive, he feels guilt for his mistakes and sins. |
Nevertheless, he continues to perform his priestly functions (often in great difficulty and sometimes reluctance) and it is his determination to attend to the spiritual needs of a dying man that leads to his eventual capture and death. |
The Lieutenant: The lieutenant is the chief adversary of the priest. |
He hates the church because he thinks it is corrupt, and he pursues the priest ruthlessly. |
He takes hostages from the villages and kills them when he feels it is necessary. |
However, the lieutenant is also idealistic, and believes in radical social reform that would end poverty and provide education for everyone. |
He is capable of acts of personal kindness, as when he gives the priest (whom he believes to be a destitute drunkard) money on leaving the jail. |
The Mestizo: The mestizo is the half-Indian peasant who insists on guiding the priest to Carmen. |
The priest knows that the mestizo will at some point hand him over to the authorities. |
The mestizo encounters the priest again in the prison, but prefers to wait for the right moment to betray him, which he does when leading him to the dying American. |
Maria: Maria is the mother of Brigitta, the priest’s daughter. |
She keeps brandy for the priest and helps him evade the police when they come to her village looking for him. |
Although she shows support when the "whisky priest" reappears, the narrative leaves the character of Maria incomplete with implications of resentment. |
Brigitta: The young daughter of Maria and the priest. |
Padre José: A priest who obeyed the government’s instructions and took a wife. |
He is dominated by her and has lost both the respect of the town and his self-respect. |
He refuses to do any priestly duties, even when people beg him to, because he fears the authorities. |
Mr. Tench: Mr. Tench is a dissatisfied English dentist who longs to return from Mexico to England. |
He befriends the priest, whom he meets at the quayside, and later witnesses his death. |
Coral Fellows: The thirteen-year-old daughter of Captain and Mrs. Fellows. |
She befriends the priest and offers refuge to him for the future. |
Her fate at the end of the novel is not revealed. |
Her parents have promised each other not to talk about her again. |
Captain Fellows: A happy Englishman who works on a banana plantation who is displeased to find that the priest has taken refuge in his barn. |
Mrs. Fellows: The wife of Captain Fellows. |
She is neurotic and fearful and hates life in Mexico. |
The Woman: The unnamed woman reads to her children the story of Juan and his martyrdom. |
The Catholic faith is important to her and she wants her children to take an interest in it. |
Luis: This young boy shows little interest in the story his mother reads to him, but his interest is awakened by the news of the priest's death. |
The Gringo: An American fugitive called James Calver, he is wanted for murder and bank robbery. |
The Chief of Police: Mostly concerned with playing billiards and assuaging his own toothache, he doesn't share the Lieutenant's idealism and wilfully breaks the law. |
The Lehrs: Mr. Lehr, a widower, and his sister, Miss Lehr, are an elderly couple who allow the priest to stay with them after he crosses the state border. |
They are Lutherans, and have little sympathy for Catholicism, although they treat the priest with kindness. |
Juan: Juan is a character within a story that the unnamed woman reads to her family. |
Juan is a young Mexican man who enters the priesthood, lives a pious life and faces his death by firing squad with great courage. |
In 1947, the novel was freely adapted into a film, "The Fugitive", directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as the priest. |
It was faithfully dramatized by Denis Cannan for performance at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1956, the whisky priest acted by Paul Scofield, and in 1958 at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City. |
The dramatization was "Play of the Week" on US television in 1959, with James Donald as the priest. |
A highly acclaimed 1961 US television version, released theatrically overseas, featured Laurence Olivier in the role. |
"The Power and the Glory" was somewhat controversial and, in 1953, Cardinal Bernard Griffin of Westminster summoned Greene and read him a pastoral letter condemning the novel. |
According to Greene:The Archbishop of Westminster read me a letter from the Holy Office condemning my novel because it was "paradoxical" and "dealt with extraordinary circumstances." |
The price of liberty, even within a Church, is eternal vigilance, but I wonder whether any of the totalitarian states ... would have treated me as gently when I refused to revise the book on the casuistical ground that the copyright was in the hands of my publishers. |
There was no public condemnation, and the affair was allowed to drop into that peaceful oblivion which the Church wisely reserves for unimportant issues. |
Evelyn Waugh in Greene's defence wrote, "It was as fatuous as unjust – a vile misreading of a noble book." |
Greene said that when he met Pope Paul VI in 1965, he assured Greene, "some aspects of your books are certain to offend some Catholics, but you should pay no attention to that." |
Many novelists consider the novel to be Greene's masterpiece, as John Updike claimed in his introduction to the 1990 reprint of the novel. |
On its publication, William Golding claimed Greene had "captured the conscience of the twentieth century man like no other." |
"The Power and the Glory" plays a role in the 2017 short film "", directed by Luke Scott. |
In this third of three prequels to "Blade Runner 2049", the character Sapper Morton (who is implied to be a replicant later in the film) presents the novel as a gift to Ella, a young friend, exclaiming:""It’s very exciting. |
It’s about an outlaw priest who’s just trying to understand the meaning of being human... It’s one of my favorites, you’ll love it"". |
Sugar-apple |
The sugar-apple, or sweetsop, is the fruit of "Annona squamosa", the most widely grown species of "Annona" and a native of the tropical Americas and West Indies. |
The Spanish traders of Manila galleons brought it to Asia, where its old Mexican name "ate" may still be found in Odia Aata, Bengali aataa, Nepalese aati, Sinhalese mati anoda, Burmese awzar thee, Indonesia “ Srikaya”’ and atis in the Philippines. |
It is also known as Seetaphal in India and Shareefa Pakistan and in the Philippines and in Australia. |
The name is also used in Portuguese as ata. |
The fruit is spherical-conical, in diameter and long, and weighing , with a thick rind composed of knobby segments. |
The color is typically pale green through blue-green, with a deep pink blush in certain varieties, and typically has a bloom. |
It is unique among "Annona" fruits in being segmented, and the segments tend to separate when ripe, exposing the interior. |
The flesh is fragrant and sweet, creamy white through light yellow, and resembles and tastes like custard. |
It is found adhering to seeds forming individual segments arranged in a single layer around a conical core. |
It is soft, slightly grainy, and slippery. |
The hard, shiny seeds may number 20–40 or more per fruit and have a brown to black coat, although varieties exist that are almost seedless. |
There are also new varieties being developed in Taiwan. |
The atemoya or "pineapple sugar-apple," a hybrid between the sugar-apple and the cherimoya, is popular in Taiwan, although it was first developed in the US in 1908. |
The fruit is similar in sweetness to the sugar-apple but has a very different taste. |
As its name suggests, it tastes like pineapple. |
As a result of its widespread cultivation, many local names have developed for the fruit. |
In Assamese: "atlos" (আতলচ) In Bengali: "ata" (আতা)In Gujarati: "sitaphal" (સીતાફળ)In Hindi: "Sitaphal" (सीताफल)In Bhojpuri: "sharifa" (शरीफ़ा)In Kannada: "jirangi hannu" ( ಜಿರಂಗಿ ಹಣ್ಣು) "sitaphala" (ಸೀತಾಫಲ)In Malayalam: "aathakka" (ആത്തക്ക) / "seethappazham" (സീതപ്പഴം)In Marathi: "sitaphal" (सीताफळ)In Odia: "aata" (ଆତ) In Punjabi: "sharifa (ਸ਼ਰੀਫਾ)In Tamil: "sitappazham" (சீதாப்பழம்)In Telugu: "sita phalamu" (సీతా ఫలము). |
Sugar-apple is high in energy, an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese, a good source of thiamine and vitamin B, and provides vitamin B, B B, B, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium in fair quantities. |
For uses of other fruit from the Custard-apple family see: |
East Branch Pecatonica River |
The East Branch Pecatonica River is a tributary of the Pecatonica River, approximately long, in southwest Wisconsin in the United States. |
It rises in the hills of eastern Iowa County, approximately north of Barneveld and approximately west of Madison. |
It flows south past Barneveld, Blanchardville, and Argyle, and joins the Pecatonica in southeast Lafayette County, approximately north of the state line with Illinois. |
University of Minnesota Duluth |
The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) is a public university in Duluth, Minnesota. |
It is part of the University of Minnesota system and offers 16 bachelor's degrees in 87 majors, graduate programs in 25 different fields, and a two-year program at the School of Medicine and a four-year College of Pharmacy program. |
Although the University of Minnesota Duluth didn’t officially make its appearance until 1947, plans for a college in the Duluth area were first made in the 1890s. |
The state legislature planned for a teaching school for women (then referred to as a normal school) and in 1895 they passed a bill authorizing the State Normal School at Duluth. |
In 1896, the City of Duluth donated of land to serve as a foundation for the school, and the state legislature provided additional funds for the construction costs for the main building in 1899, which was built in 1900. |
In February 1901, a fire caused extensive damage to the school and the following year, the school was rebuilt. |
In April 1901, Eugene W. Bohannon was appointed president of the Duluth Normal School. |
In 1902 the school first opened for enrollment. |
The first students, all women, came to the school to be trained for a degree in education. |
By 1903, the first seven women received their diplomas from the State Normal School at Duluth. |
The institution changed names to the Duluth State Normal School or Duluth Normal School in 1905. |
In 1906, the first dormitories were opened, costing the school around $35,000 to build. |
Room and board were offered at cost, between fourteen and fifteen dollars a month. |
Throughout the next few years, more dormitories, two new wings, and an auditorium were added to the school. |
Requirements, such as having a high school diploma, were instituted. |
Students who signed a pledge to teach after graduation attended for free; others were required to pay $30 per year. |
The 1906 "Bulletin of the State Normal School" describes the school at that time: |
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