• Chapter one seems to focus on the thoughts of the priest while chapter 2 seems to be focused more on action and conversation. Do you think this change in style helps keep the reader involved? Is it useful to do it this way?—JC

• “One of the Fathers has told us that joy always depends on pain. Pain is a part of joy.” pg. 69—KH

• The illegitimate daughter of the priest (p. 76)—CS

• Pg. 94-5 talks about the priest’s ambition. The “excessive” ambition (“I was too ambitious”) bothers him but also make him stand out. How would you analysis the significance of ambition so far in the novel?—PY

• What does the class think of the Priest recognizing the mestizo as his Judas, yet traveling with him for as long as he did? (Pg. 99).—EA

• Pages 100-101. Is the priest helping the Mestizo because he feels guilty for his past sins or because he is truly trying to fulfill his priestly duty?—SM

• Pg. 102, when the priest parts ways with the mestizo. What do you think of that character and his intentions?—WF I would like to discuss the exchange between the pious woman and the Priest starting on page 127—PW

• “It was appallingly complicated. He was still afraid of death, he would be more afraid of death yet when the morning came, but it was beginning to attract him by its simplicity.” (Page 130)—AR

• The pious woman (130).—BF

• Why does the priest go unnamed throughout the book so far?—DM