Anyone read the book bread and wine by Ignazio Silone?

Question

I was supposed to read it for tommorow's class but I forgot all about it. I thought maybe I could start reading it today and maybe get the main idea but it's so terribly boring. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You just say it, it's terrible boring, all he's talking about is bread and wine, weird stuff anyway..☺

Answer 2

It's not boring it's fun! Set in Mussolini's Italy, an Italian communist is on the run from the fascist police, and is helped by a priest who is also anti-fascist. The communist dresses in priest's clothing and poses as a priest away from his diocese with no permission to perform any sacraments, but the peasants insist on coming to him for confession because they don't want the local priest to know their guilty secrets! He doesn't believe in God but is sympathetic to their plight, and does his best.
The priest who helps him was his high school teacher; his classmates confront their former teacher with the fact that the man is an atheist, but the priest says that the man is willing to sacrifice everything for the benefit of his fellow man, so to call him an "atheist" is mere quibbling over words. In other words, the communist is actually doing God's work.
There is a lot of humor, for instance the priest says the "Dept. of Public Safety" (the police) should be called the "Dept of Public Endangerment." And the kids in school are taught about their country's "hereditary enemy," but this changes in the middle of the school year (no doubt on Mussolini's orders) and the children are confused. They just want the right answer: who is really the hereditary enemy?

Answer 3

nope.