Part Four (Pages 211-221)

In the final part of the book all the characters that no one imagined would ever appear again did. The first ones were the Fellows. They were on a boat on their way to the town were the priest had been killed that same morning. Captain Fellows wonders if he could be the same priest they sheltered but his wife says she doesn't think so. She is very ill and I think she is a little dramatic too. I can tell they are going through a hard time and by what they talk about they are going back to England. The next to reappear is Mr Tench. He was fixing the Jefe's mouth and talking about a letter he had received from his wife. He also had a terrible pain in his stomach, but he considered it indigestion. It was a normal day until he say lots of police men outside his window. The Jefe told him it was an execution. He continued watching and he saw how they killed the priest, that man he once met. Mr Tench was shocked.

The same woman who was reading a bedtime story to her two girls and her son, finishes the story in which the priest is murdered and becomes a martyr. Then they all go to bed and the boy thinks about the priest who was murdered that morning and how he had once stayed in their house. The story and the reality going on in the novel are the same, and this is something very interesting, but I am not sure how to interpret it. Finally a man knocks on the door, the boy opens and it turns out to be a priest.

It is very cool that in the fourth part of the novel all the stories that were once mentioned are conclude and the reader gets to know what happened to the priest in three different ways. The story no longer follows him because he is dead, but it goes with other characters who knew the priest. The only thing I don't like about this ending is that we don't know what happens with the priest's daughter and I would have liked to read her side of her father's death.