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Part 1 How everything had begun

Percy’s snowball hit Mrs. Dempster and caused her into premature labour. Dunny was feeling guilt for Mrs. Dempster’s simplicity and Paul’s premature birth, eventhough he didn’t throw the snowball. Dunstan taught Paul how to do magic tricks. He was banned from ever going to the Dempster’s house and see Mary and Paul because he taught Paul how to play poker. People thought Mary Dempster was insane, but she brought Willie back to life. Dunny went to war.

I think Chapter was an introduction to the book. It told us about how Dunny’s life was affected by the snowball accident. Not only Dunny had changed his life style, he also grew up by all that he had been through. He had his own opinions towards things and not believing in what others say blindly.

Part.2 Rebirth

Dunny was injured because the Germans were expecting his troop, the last thing he saw before he passed out was a VISION OF Mary Dempster in front of a statue of the Immaculate Conception. He found out that his parents had died in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic when he was in the hospital. Diana, who was his nurse, discussed their relationship with Dunny and ended up parting as friends. Dunny returned to the village as a hero even though he did not believe himself to be one. Dunny felt more obliged to help Mrs.Dempster because Amasa Dempster had died of the flu and Paul left to join the circus.

Dunny saw a bigger view of the world. He experiences death and killing. His injury had made him believe in saints and think that Mrs. Dempster was the saint in his life. When Dunny who was now called Dunstan had come back to the village, he figured that he was not in love with Leola at all; she was just like a trophy girl.

Part3. Searching for Hope

1919, Dunstan was studying history in University of Toronto. At the same time, Percy had changed his name to Boy Staunton and made a lot of money through investments. He tried to date women when he was teaching in a college but with no success because he was extremely self conscious with women. Dunstan discovered that Joel Surgeoner was the tramp that had intercourse with Mrs. Dempster and now he was a God-feared man. He had found Mary Dempster in the Weston and Paul in a circus performing magic tricks.

Saint symbolizes hope and grace. Dunstan traveled around Europe to learn about saints because it was what he believed in. He tried to convince Paul to go back to his mother but was rejected with hatred. Dunstan thought Mrs. Dempster would like to see Paul, therefore he thought if he brought Paul back, it would be the repay for what he had done.



Part4. Lose and Gain

Staunton’s tips had saved Dunstan from the great depression. He told Dunstan that he wanted to make Leola into a perfect Executive’s wife but with no success. Dunstan visited Mrs. Dempster every half of a month and became her guardian after her aunt’s death in 1932. All of Dunstan’s time was take up with teaching, taking care of Mrs. Dempster, and watching Staunton’s destruction of Leola. Dunstan spent time with Mr. Padre Ignacio Blazon, the editor of the Jesuits’ magazine, to talk about saints and Dustan’s past. Leola commit suicide after a fight with Staunton and left a letter saying that she’d always loved him.

It was impossible to change a person when that person did not have the will to change. Leola was happy with what she had but Staunton was not; he wanted more. Also, the more Dunstan tried to do for Mrs. Demspter, the more he felt guilt for her because he would always thinking that there was not enough and it could be done better. Every time he did something for her, he would feel that he could do more.

Part5. Pay for the Gate

Because of Staunton’s absence in Ottawa, Leola sank into a even more of depression and ended up dying of Pneumonia in 1942. Dunstan was resigning from the school he taught during the Second World War and took a six month leave of absence. Dunstan was in Guadalupe searching churches for saints and found Paul, who changed his name into Magnus Eisengrim, and gave back his wallet from the last time. Dunstan wrote an autobiography on Paul and got a half-share in the royalties. Dunstan was infatuated with Faustina, who was a worker in Paul’s team, and eventually felt that he loved her. Liesl told him that he was the Fifth Business who has no opposite of the other sex and knows the secret of the hero’s birth, or assists the heroine when she thinks all is lost, or keeps the hermitess in her cell.

Dunstan had discovered Faustina’s relationship with Liesl. He changed his way of thinking, viewing things, and gained courage to step into matters instead of just be the watcher of the game.

Part6. What hides inside

Dunstan came back for Mary Dempster after the war. He told her about Paul and he believed that there was a plot that she seemed to become even madder. Staunton told Dunstan that he wanted to leave everything behind now because he had done everything that he ever wanted to do. Mrs. Dempster died, Dunstan had her cremated and begged for forgiveness because he felt he did not love enough. Boy Staunton was found dead, and Dunstan believed that it was Paul who had murder him because they three had a conversation about Mrs. Dempster’s insanity the day before Staunton’s death. Staunton didn’t show any guily which had made Paul mad, therefore he committed murder and put the stone which was once in the snowball into his mouth.

It was Dunstan’s first act to face his guilt in all the years he had lived. He had finally released from his guilt. He was able to tell Paul the truth of his mother and the reason of how she was insane was a very brave act of his.