![]() Geographyįorests, rivers, and mountains dominate the terrain and make both travel and escape difficult. We're treated to the sights, sounds, and smells of a river port, a city square, a tiny dental office, police barracks, jail cells, city residences, impoverished huts, plantation barns, and a seedy hotel where you can buy illegal booze. While Greene keeps the exact locations somewhat vague (he doesn't actually name the state), he brings them to life with vivid description. The narration follows the priest around, but also adopts the point of view of people near and far away from him. The action takes place mostly in small villages and plantations the priest visits or in the unnamed Capital. The protagonist of the novel is apparently the only living priest in the area-no pressure or anything. The events in the novel transpire years into the suppression of the Catholic Church: houses of worship have long been destroyed or converted into government buildings, children have no memories of going to Mass, and most of the priests in the state have been hunted down and executed. ![]() ![]() Greene had visited Mexico during this time of religious persecution and had seen its effects up close and personal. ![]() ![]() The Power and the Glory is loosely set in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco during an anti-Catholic purge. Tabasco, a Southern Mexican State, during the 1930s ![]()
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