Amalia Tabet Discussion 3

In this story we can trace how excessive pressure on child can change his perceptions of belief.
At the beginning of the story, he entered the church being innocent, hopeful and faithful boy, It was pressure of his relatives and the rest of the older people around him. Despite that, he was quite consistent and calm being surrounded by dozens of people singing and shouting about salvation, he continued sitting and waiting for Jesus. He was afraid to lie to other people, to the God and what is most important to himself. It characterizes him as a very fair fellow.
However, under the pressure of all people’s expectations ,It was a climax, the small boy needed help, needed some explanations. So he doesn’t believe in Jesus anymore, or blames him for his indifference. Also It is clear that he is a conscientious boy. He lied, but he was sorry about that, trying to hide his head under the quilts not to be ashamed by his lying, so the boy was in desperation.
As far as the main character is the author of this story his perception of that situation when he was a grownup already can be analyzed . The author uses phrases which describe his attitude, to show that salvation was a kind of compulsion rather than his own will. People treated the boy as a lamb, at the same time they were described by author as homogeneous mass of crying people, so the author criticizes the excessive pressure of grownup people on children. Maybe Jesus doesn’t need any help to come?