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Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Power , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Author Neil Adam Armon writes a letter to a fellow writer named Naomi Alderman , explaining that he has finished his book and asking her to read it.

He apologizes for going on and on, and thanks her profusely for sparing the time to read it. Neil is an analogue for Alderman herself, as his name is an anagram hers. Lehr who informs him that he is out of danger, having crossed the bor der into a neighboring state where religion is not outlawed.

After spending a few days at the home of Mr. Lehr, the priest prepares to leave for Las Casas. But before he can depart, the mestizo arrives, informing him that the gringo has been mortally wounded by the police and is asking for someone to come and hear his confession. The priest, aware that he is walking into a trap, finally agrees to accompany the mestizo back across the border.

There he meets the gringo, who refuses to repent for his sins and then dies. Then, as expected, the lieutenant arrives and ta kes the priest into custody. The two men have a long conversation about their beliefs and then, when the storm front clears, the lieutenant takes the priest back to the capital city for his trial.

On the night before the priest is to be executed, the lieutenant goes to the home of Padre Jose to see if he will come and hear the confession of the captured priest. Padre Jose refuses and the lieutenant returns to the police station with a bottle of bra ndy for the priest. That night, the priest tries to repent for his sins, but finds he cannot. He wakes up the next morning afraid of the impending execution.

The next day, Mr. Tench watches the execution from the window of the jefe's office. Later that night the boy hears about what happened to the priest and realizes that the man is a martyr and a hero. Struggling with distance learning? Our Teacher Edition on The Power can help. Themes All Themes. Terms All Terms Skein. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive.

The Power Study Guide Next. A concise biography of Naomi Alderman plus historical and literary context for The Power. In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of The Power. Visual theme-tracking, too. The Power 's important quotes, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. Bessapara becomes a rallying cry for women around the globe. Men are beaten and even raped by the women with impunity.

Tunde, working undercover, records these realities and broadcasts them to the world. The emerging totalitarian government alarms the deeply spiritual Mother Eve. The voice in her head tells her to seek a world sanely governed by moral and righteous women who respect rather than destroy men.

Mother Eve uses her own skein to manipulate Tatiana to slit her own throat and is then elected leader of Bessapara. Senator Cleary incites the American government to side with Bessapara. That is the tipping point. Although no details are provided, the frame narrative suggests that an unnamed cataclysm, most likely a nuclear event, sent humanity back to its beginnings.

Now, five-thousand years later, society has been rebuilt now with women in charge and Mother Eve held in mythic esteem. The guide themes, chapter outlines and character summaries are more detailed than other sites. The information is chapter specific and so it's easy to target certain things.