The Silence is to painful to bear...

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At the current moment, I am writing this blog post on the afternoon of Tuesday the 7th.  I have just finished reading all the way through the end of chapter 7 and I am very sad. I am making myself take a break from reading in order to write this blog post so that I do not give anything away from later chapters. Writing this blog post super early was the only way I could think of to prevent spoiler alerts since I definitely need to finish reading the book today. This means that when I finish the book later today, I will probably be even more depressed than I am now and will need chocolate to console myself.
This book is very upsetting in general and I am not quite sure how to process it. When I am reading the book, I am so caught up in the world of the priest’s mind. As the priest sits for days in his prison cell, slowly starting to question everything and go insane, I feel as if I am starting to go insane also. I understand why the priest, when he first arrives at the prison (before the death of the one-eyed man), says he likes it, yet I am confused as to how someone could live out their days in peace knowing that in any moment their peace could be taken away as it later is in the book. When this peacefulness breaks and his friends are martyred, the world inside the priest’s head grows even bigger and more all-encompassing for me. It is as if the ever-longing silence is becoming too much to bear, which forces the priest to become more and more in his own mind. As the characters start to die off he fills the silence with his own thoughts that start to drive him crazy. The longer the book goes on, the more I cannot help but wonder what terrible end might be brought to the priest. I have hope for the priest, but sadly it is a very doubtful hope. Now I shall return to the book, and learn the fate of our poor priest.


There will be no pun of the week as I think the matter of the book is too sad.

P.S I commented on Natalie and Sophia's

Comments

  1. Sophia ColbertMarch 12, 2018 at 12:18 PM

    I suppose you could argue that your lack of a pun is the pun. You know, since the title of the book is Silence... never mind.

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    1. Zelda PeachMarch 12, 2018 at 6:31 PM

      HAHAHA oh my goodness you are so right! I didn't even think of that!!!

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  2. Natalie SchulerMarch 12, 2018 at 4:55 PM

    I don't think his peacefulness is true peacefulness. I think he has merely relaxed because he has finally been caught. He doesn't really rest in Christ (which is where peace comes from), he is resting on his own knowledge.

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  3. Michael TurnerMarch 12, 2018 at 9:32 PM

    Nietzsche once said, and I paraphrase: "If you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss will stare back."

    Rodriguez spends the entire first half of the book staring into the abyss of what-ifs and the adoration of the native Christians that when he is left with nothing but silence and his own thoughts, the abyss begins to stare back and invade his sanity. This is what happens when faith is used for fame, fortune, or any selfish desire. If your faith is hollow, what are you left with when bad things start happening? Nothing but the "silence" and the demons of your own mind.

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