The Port and the Capital (The Power and the Glory # 1)

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is the next novel we will be reading for english class. This novel seems to take place in latin america, first of all becuase the language spoken is spanish and they mentioned some mexican towns. I think the setting of this novel until now, takes place in a small town of Mexico during the time period of the mexican revolution. We can make this connection and deduce this events because of what was happening, priest being prosecuted and killed, street bands, people dying, lack of work, poor people etc.
Until now, what ive read, talks about a priest or a stranger thats being persecute by the authorities while this one tries to scape from them hiding in peoples houses and hiding his real identity to some others. First, this authorities talk about a person guilty of robing a bank, but also mention a priest or a stranger that was guilty of treason and that was scaping from the authorities. This part was very confusing, because there are many secondary characters and secondary situations that are occuring at the same time as the principal story so some times it gets confusing and you easily loose the track of the novel.
For this part of the novel I can do a character comparison between Mr. Tench and Mersault from The Stranger. We can see how Mr. Tench has a very undefined labor life just like Mersault did in The Stranger. We can see how both carry on with a solitaire and a very independent life. Both in some cases are really eaasy going like for example in The Stranger when Mersault has conversations with his neighbot, and in this novel, when Mr. Tench gets into a conversation with this strange guy very easily.
This are some connections I could manage to do by only reading the first twenty pages of the novel. I am still a little confused about some parts of the plot but hopefully this doubts would get resolved after reading some more.
Mariana Gonzalez
September 25/ 2007
Pages (7-30)