Silence

Silence Shusaku Endo, Silence Silence is a book written as a book describing basic Christian beliefs and to discuss and show how a Christian priest traveled to Japan to spread the Christian beliefs. This book was not just any ordinary book of Christianity; it showed how one priest who had such strong beliefs struggled to stay alive everyday while he was in captivity in a Japanese prison. This book gives the reader a basic understanding of the Christian beliefs. This book starts off with describing how a well known priest, known for his strong Christian beliefs, was taken into custody by the Japanese. The author goes into detail describing how the priest apostatize his beliefs. Thus meaning he had given into the Japanese and told them that he would forget about his beliefs. The book soon continues and describes how four other priests set off on a voyage to Japan to follow this priest’s doings, in denial of what they were told about him apostatizing his Christianity. Consequently they did end up reaching Japan hoping they could spread the word and act as a missionary to the Japanese. The only problem was the fact that Japan had forbidden book, beliefs, christian, priest, loyalty, religion, japan, japanese, guards, end, displayed, about, word, while, told, throughout, off, fact, describing, christianity, true, taken, strong, story, spread, remained, referred, prison, one, motivated, known, kept, just, followers, even