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Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnessed the accident, decides to investigate the “secret lives” of the victims and asks whether an intention or hidden pattern lies behind their sudden deaths. 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But in the mind of Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnessed the catastrophe, burned the question,“Why did this happen to those five?”  \nAs Brother Juniper ’s investigations illuminate the possibility of an Intention to the disaster—involving the lives left behind as well as those lost on the bridge—the reader rediscovers the one “bridge”between the land of the living and the land of the dead that does not fall.  \nTHE BRIDGE OF  \nSAN LUIS REY  \nTHORNTON WILDER  \nTHE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY  \nA Washington Square Press edition  \n1st printing………………………May, 1939  \n29th printing………………. October, 1963  \nA new edition of a distinguished literary work now made available inan inexpensive, well-designed format  \nWSP  \nPublished by  \nWashington Square Press, Inc. 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N.Y.  \nWASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS editions are distributed in The U.S. by Affiliated Publishers, a division of Pocket Books, Inc. 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N.Y.  \nCopyright 1955, by Thornton Wilder. Printed in the U.S.A.  \nCONTENTS  \nPART ONE: PERHAPS AN ACCIDENT  \nPART TWO:  THE MARQUESA DE MONTEMAYOR  \nPART THREE: ESTEBAN  \nPART FOUR: UNCLE PIO  \nPART FIVE: PERHAPS AN INTENTION  \nTo My Mother  \nPart One  \nPERHAPS AN ACCIDENT  \nOn Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. This bridge was on the high-road, between Lima and Cuzco and hundreds of persons passed over it every day. It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century before and visitors to the city were always led out to see it. It was a mere ladder of thin slats swung out over the gorge, with handrails of dried vine. Horses and coaches and chairs had to go down hundreds of feet below and pass over the narrow torrent on rafts, but no one, not even the Viceroy, not even the Archbishop of Lima, had descended with the baggage rather than cross by the famous bridge of San Luis Rey. St. Louis of France himself protected it, by his name and by the little mud church on the further side. The bridge seemed to be among the things that last forever; it was unthinkable that it should break. The moment a Peruvian heard of the accident he signed himself and made a mental calculation as to how recently he had crossed by it and how soon he had intended crossing by it again. People wandered about in a trance-like state, muttering; they had the hallucination of seeing themselves falling into a gulf.  \nThere was a great service in the Cathedral. The bodies of the victims were approximately collected and [4] approximately separated from one another, and there was great searching of hearts in the beautiful city of Lima. Servant girls returned bracelets which they had stolen from their mistresses, and usurers harangued their wives angrily, in defense of usury. Yet it was rather strange that this event should have so impressed the Limeans, for in that country those catastrophes which lawyers shockingly call the “acts of God” were more than usually frequent. Tidal waves were continually washing away cities; earthquakes arrived every week and towers fell upon good men and women all the time. Diseases were forever flitting in and out of the provinces and old age carried away some of the most admirable citizens. That is why it was so surprising that the Peruvians should have been especially touched by the rent in the bridge of San Luis Rey.  \nEveryone was very deeply impressed, but only one person did anything about it, and that was Brother Juniper. By a series of coincidences so extraordinary that one almost suspects the presence of some Intention, this little red-haired Franciscan from Northern Italy happened to be in Peru converting the Indians and happened to witness the accident.  \nIt w","cbCaiki53iKaFJLc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiki53iKaFJLc","pdf",705944,91,"English","# Part One: Perhaps an Accident\n# Part Two: The Marquesa de Montemayor\n# Part Three: Esteban\n# Part Four: Uncle Pio\n# Part Five: Perhaps an Intention","[{\"question\":\"What event begins the story of The Bridge of San Luis Rey?\",\"answer\":\"A famed bridge in Peru breaks on July 20, 1714, causing five travelers to fall into the gulf below.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Brother Juniper focus on the five victims?\",\"answer\":\"He is struck by the question of why the accident happened to those five and resolves to investigate their secret lives to find a reason.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the community react to the bridge collapse?\",\"answer\":\"Citizens pray and perform religious responses, and Lima is filled with reflection and searching of hearts, though similar catastrophes are common in the region.\"}]","The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Part of a Distinguished Literary Work | PDF",140]