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Course Hero. "The Power and the Glory Study Guide." Course Hero. 16 Oct. 2017. Web. 29 June 2022. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Power-and-the-Glory/>.
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Course Hero. (2017, October 16). The Power and the Glory Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved June 29, 2022, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Power-and-the-Glory/
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Course Hero. "The Power and the Glory Study Guide." October 16, 2017. Accessed June 29, 2022. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Power-and-the-Glory/.
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Course Hero, "The Power and the Glory Study Guide," October 16, 2017, accessed June 29, 2022, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Power-and-the-Glory/.
The priest, planning to escape a ban on religion, meets Mr. Tench.
Part 1, Chapter 1The mestizo sees the priest in jail but does not tell the lieutenant.
Part 2, Chapter 3After wandering for days and growing ill, the priest finds a friendly village across the border.
Part 2, Chapter 4The mestizo asks the priest to hear the injured American's confession before he dies.
Part 3, Chapter 1Against reason, the priest returns to hear the criminal's confession and is caught.
Part 3, Chapter 2The priest and the lieutenant talk about their different points of view before returning.
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Part 1, Chapter 1 | In a small town in Mexico, Mr. Tench, a British dentist, goes out to the port to fetch an ether cylinder being delivered... Read More |
Part 1, Chapter 2 | A squad of police, led by a lieutenant, returns to the police station. The lieutenant seeks out his jefe, his boss, the ... Read More |
Part 1, Chapter 3 | Captain Fellows, a cheerful man, is the administrator of an outpost of the Central American Banana Company. His wife is ... Read More |
Part 1, Chapter 4 | Starting to write a letter to his estranged wife, Mr. Tench finds himself thinking back to the strange man who shared a ... Read More |
Part 2, Chapter 1 | The priest heads to an unnamed village. Although he associates the village with sin, the priest happily goes there. When... Read More |
Part 2, Chapter 2 | A "man in the shabby drill suit" is sitting in the city plaza when a beggar accosts him. After some conversation, the ma... Read More |
Part 2, Chapter 3 | The priest is locked in a communal cell. Some cellmates complain about the crowding, about a lack of water, and about th... Read More |
Part 2, Chapter 4 | Weeks later, the priest returns to the Central American Banana Company outpost because he doesn't know where else to go.... Read More |
Part 3, Chapter 1 | Having safely crossed the border, the priest is staying with Mr. and Miss Lehr, a German-American man and his sister who... Read More |
Part 3, Chapter 2 | After a five-hour trek, the mestizo and the priest reach a deserted cluster of Indian huts, where the mestizo says the A... Read More |
Part 3, Chapter 3 | When the lieutenant enters the hut, the priest thanks him for allowing him time with the dying man, to which the lieuten... Read More |
Part 3, Chapter 4 | The lieutenant goes to see Padre José, who refuses to hear the priest's confession. When the lieutenant informs him, the... Read More |
Part 4 | Captain and Mrs. Fellows are alone in the town. Mrs. Fellows moans about her illnesses and Captain Fellows seems ill at ... Read More |