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I'm trying to locate a story for a student. I thought it was by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and I thought the name of it was "The Gospel According to St. Mark" or something close to that. Google does not reveal such a story in his works currently in print, so either author or title is not what I think, or maybe both.
In the story, an educated man, perhaps a teacher, is visiting some very isolated folks up in the mountains or perhaps in the rain forest, and tells them stories from the Bible. A big rain comes and all roads, etc., are cut off and he's trapped with them. First he notices that they're building something and knowing that they take the Bible stories very literally he thinks it's an ark. Only things are getting very tough and they've keyed into the idea of the sacrificial lamb; it turns out they're building a cross--to sacrifice him.
I may even have the plot wrong in places, but that's the general idea. Ring any bells for anyone?
In the story, an educated man, perhaps a teacher, is visiting some very isolated folks up in the mountains or perhaps in the rain forest, and tells them stories from the Bible. A big rain comes and all roads, etc., are cut off and he's trapped with them. First he notices that they're building something and knowing that they take the Bible stories very literally he thinks it's an ark. Only things are getting very tough and they've keyed into the idea of the sacrificial lamb; it turns out they're building a cross--to sacrifice him.
I may even have the plot wrong in places, but that's the general idea. Ring any bells for anyone?