Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Pastor Dowe at Tacate
In the beginning of Pastor Dowe at Tacate, the pastor seems like he is well respected as the story states that almost a hundred Indians attended his sermon even though he is a stranger to them. They seemed to be welcoming of him. As the story progresses, he seems to come off a little aggressive for a pastor that's on a mission/missionary to "save" the villagers from their sins and just overall aggressive. This seems to occur when he realizes his audience does not seem interested in what he has to say, and he is seen trying to push his beliefs and etc on them. I think it's unfair because they already have their own sets of beliefs and religions. Because of this, he tries different ways to get the villagers more interested in what he has to say. He turns to different techniques in order to change the behavior of the villagers such as using music. The use of salt is also mentioned in the story. In the story he has three sermons.
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I agree with you when you said the pastor is trying to push his belief on the villagers. Why is he trying to push his belief on the villagers when the have their own belief? & he didn't stop. He had 3 sermon to push these belief on the villagers.
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