"First Confession" by Frank O'Connor (Ireland)

This story of the "First Confession" by Frank O'Connor is a story about this very bad child that tries to kill his sister and grandma.  He is a catholic boy so at this point in his life he takes his first communion course.  When he's done with his course he goes to confess with the priest, he confesses and the priest tells him to say three hail marys.  He says them and all of a sudden his life turns around, he gets candy and now he is a good boy.  This story relates to Ireland because in this country they are very catholic, and so people there are good when they confess to the priest.



The church I go to is in 4th and pierce, it is called "Our Lady of Guadalupe" and it is a catholic church.  Some activities we do there are "palm sunday", "ash wednesday", and "posadas".  In ash wednesday the priest places ash on ur forehead in the shape of a cross to represent the resurrection of christ and his death, and in the other activities we do similar things as in the fact that we all praise god or the "Virgen de Guadalupe".  My church beliefs are in heaven and hell, Jesus Christ, and saints and virgins as in  "La Virgen de Guadalupe". 



Felix M.

"The Last Judgement" by Karel Capek (Czechoslovakia)

The story of "The Last Judgement" by Karel Capek is a story about a very bad person, he is so bad that he killed nine people in his lifetime. A police officer ended his life by shooting him, 7 of those he gave him were fatal.  After his death he went to a pathway to heaven, there court was set for him to decide his destiny in the after life.  God was a witness there, since he knows everything about everybody, and yet the judges of heaven decided that he was sentenced to a life time in hell.  This story relates to Czechoslovakia because there is a really high death ratio in that country.



I really do think that if you do behave/act bad in your life, your after life would not be good.  Depending on how you in your life is how your after life is going to be.  You might go to hell, you might be a toilet, or you might even be a sidewalk being stepped on all the time.  This story is a very interesting story for me because it tells you not to do bad things or else you'll be punished when you die.  I do believe in karma because you cant live a perfect bad life you know, it's sort of impossible.  Humans shouldn't be mean to other humans because karma will come back and hit them harder in life.



Felix M.