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[Fatma]

i will comment on your review dear friend :) you concentrated upon the events and you enumerated the sins committed by the preacher and that's fine to some extent.
However ,i want to go far in analyzing the author's deep intentions which i find more important . As a general statement , Seymon Dye comes to translate the writer's deep hate for religion since it hypnotizes people and reduces them to mere ridiculous actors . i will open a needed parentheses here and say that nowadays in my beloved country Tunisia , we witness a hotly debated issue revolving around whether we should mix religion with state or should keep each one distant. An Islamist party won the previous elections and the argue wasn't over. Left parties explained the success as follow : Islamists promoted a religious discourse in their campaigns , they used churches to deliver certain misleading messages ( such as if you don't vote for that party , you are doomed to hell, if you don't elect us , you will be cursed till the day of judgement). I did draw an analogy between Tunisians and Caldwell's fictional characters to say that people who are not accustomed to reasoning and independence are vulnerable to the religious discourse. The latter fills their minds with tranquility especially if it is transmitted by eloquent spokesmen ( Seymon dye ) here i want to make the difference between the characters who were present in school Sunday and the characters who lived with Dye and saw the atrocities committed by this bizarre preacher . while the first category mentioned were uninformed about the coming guest which makes them less guilty, the second category were well-informed and updated.Yet, that doesn't make them act differently Sunday. In short , people refuse to believe their own senses :the sight ( images of rape) , the smell ( the wine) because there is a need not only to be assimilated into a discourse , but also into a group of people sharing the same thoughts and acts. this bleakly-painted picture depicted comes to translate the writer's loss of faith in people. Rocky Comfort's inhabitants were once bound to each other by sins and no one standed against that mainstream culture, the arrival of the preacher was not a turning point in their lives since they peruse being submissive and coward. i want to mention faucault's book " discourse and power" because it dealt with the issue discussed in Journeyman.