With this in mind, the reason why the pastor is so harsh with his children is because his statements to this children on why they have sinned, and sinners must be punished. What makes this cruel manipulation accurate in the film is how the protestant church shapes the way the town lives by its rules. When the farmer goes to church after his son destroyed the Baron’s cabbage garden, the Baron access him of hurting his son Fion as revenge for the accident that caused his wife’s death at the sawmill. What makes accusation fascinating is that it is not done in a town hall, but a church. To explain the actual proof of how powerful a church is for a community in “Ein Herr as Bolatitz: Lebenserinnerungen” it tells a story of a young boy who is still…show more content… He knows his neighbors of the village, was involved in village activities like the Baron's small festival for his workers and understood the responsibly he held for his family and community. However, behind closed doors, the pastor is insulting and uses manipulative ways of disciplining his children, telling them that he is in more pain than them when he beats them, then after he beats them he makes them wear a White Ribbon to symbolize purity because they are God’s Children, they are meant to be pure and God is always watching. What the pastor does not understand is that his harsh punishments and hardcore religious environment has created the children to lash out in violent ways toward the people of the town and Karala killed her fathers parked in the shape of a cross and put it on her father's desk. The pastor is starting to lose control over the power he had over his children and to him, the only way to make them understand auroity is through harsh punishment, which is no longer working, because the when the school teacher tells the pastor that he suspects his children have been behind the crimes, he loses it and access him of legal charges if he repeated his accusations to
