religious experience
...kie says she was who initialized all the trouble when she moved to live with them. And Jackie is embarrassed to her and don’t like her because she is a country woman, takes snuff, bare feet, porter, potato dinner, and favors Nora. Meza 2 Also, Jackie’s father sides with her against Jackie. And Nora Jackie’s older sister torments him and encourages to him fear to confession. On the other hand, Jackie feels support and sympathy just in his mother, who has to put up grandma and dislikes her too. One particular thing that in my opinion makes the story really good is the humor of the description of Jackie’s behavior in the darkness of the confessional box, when he couldn’t see anything and started climbing the place used to rest the elbows. But, in the end Jackie’s fears are overcome because of his experience with a young priest, who after his amazed anger at the boy being upside down, treats him with gentleness and understanding. This priest have a vital role in the story, because he balances Jackie’s perception of religion in to a positive way, when he takes him seriously and with respect, which helps Jackie to tell him the dislike he feels towards his grandmother, and makes it possible for him to make a good, sincerest, and innocent confession, which leaves Jackie cleansed and feeling the world to be good. After his confession Jackie perceives the sunlight as “The roaring of waves on the beach; it dazzled me; and when the frozen silence melted and I heard the screech of trams on the road my heart soared.”(98). Meza 3 And has a moment of pleasure that he wouldn’t die and come back leaving marks on his mother furniture and she will not suffer because of his sins. Nora, on the other hand, experienced no healing after her confession, and is jealous because of the of the sweetness of the priest with Jackie and questions him about his penance, “And he only gave you three Hail Marys?...