Father Pancho By Bergson Summary

is also considered to be something children do. We find Father Pancho’s child like tendencies to be funny because he is an old man acting immature.
Billy’s parents are an example of reciprocal interference. They want to hire someone to give Billy a death blessing, but they didn’t know Father Pancho was Catholic. The phone conversation has two completely different meanings to each person. Father Pancho thinks he has finally found work with grief counseling and Billy’s parents think a rabbi is coming to bless their son—neither aware of the circumstances that are actually occurring. When Billy’s parents see Father Pancho, they realize the mistake they made.
Bergson’s theory of absence of feeling is prevalent in our story. Billy is a boy who is sick, but in the story we do not have sympathy for him. As stated by Bergson “in such a case we must, for the moment, put our affection out of court and impose silence upon our pity.” We put the fact that Billy is sick aside, and let the comedy take over. Billy being sick is a key factor to the story because if he wasn’t sick, then there wouldn’t be a comedy. He is the reason for Father Pancho coming in and having such erratic behavior in the story. His sickness is a social signification. Since this short story is meant to be funny, the audience’s mindset is fixated on the humorous …show more content…
While doing our project, we didn’t want it to be ordinary. The pictures give off an eerie feel but the comedy is still present. It is comparable to a series on YouTube called Salad Fingers. Our comedy itself is dark humor. Our short story makes light of a situation that is a serious subject matter. The sick child, a priest being involved with a little boy, a boy wanting sex with an old man, and a priest pretending to be a rabbi are examples of serious situations that are humorous in our comedy. Black comedy is subjective, which is the fourth Common Ground