The schooldays of Jesus as Christian parable

Abstract

 The Schooldays of Jesus takes Novilla’s lack of passion to its opposite to the town of Estrella where David attends a school of dance and where people are filled with passion which leads at its height to the crime at the center of the novel: Dmitri an unattractive guard kills Ana Magdalena in a crime of passion which is inexplicable apart from the fact that he felt unworthy of her though she was engaged in an affair with him. The fact that this crime of passion is not something he feels repentance for indicates that the opposite of reason, passion and appetite is dangerous territory which leads to sin and unrepentance. Dmitri kills Ana in a violent crime of passion and does not repent over it. So the opposite of Novilla, the boring epitome of Reason, in its brutal turn to instinct and passion has not liberated David and Simon.