I really enjoyed reading this story. It grabbed my attention from the start and kept it throughout the story, which is a very hard thing to do. The people were shocked by the appearance of the angel at first. He did not look like what they imagined a normal angel would. He was dressed in rags and his wings had bugs in them. He had hardly any hair or teeth. He was unable to communicate with the people and when he didn’t speak Latin, Father Gonzaga thought he was an imposter. He smelt like a human. Father Gonzage was convinced he was a creature from Hell. Anyways, I’m not sure where I’m going with this but all this stuck out to me while reading this story. Maybe it’s that we judge people by how they look and how they smell and just assume we know what kind of person they are by these things. Maybe the Angel represents some of us. Down on our luck, everything is going wrong, we can’t seem to break out of our situation that we find our self in. We feel like we’re in a cage and everyone is looking at us and poking at us with sticks because we don’t fit into their idea of normal. We try to communicate with people but we just can’t seem to. Anyways, that’s just some of my interpretation.

I don’t understand why the angel was there in the first place.  Why did they not like angels at this point in time? What celestial conspiracy had they survived? I thought it was pretty twisted to make money off of the angel. They charged people to look at it and treated it like an animal, no respect or honor at all.

I did really like this story it is probably my favorite.