Angel or Man

There are a lot of themes in this story that all seem to connect, I’m sure if I totally understand it but I’ll try to explain here.  I felt there was a strong tie between the child and the so called angel.  The part in the story where it talks about the boy got chicken pox and likewise so did the angel.  Something interesting I took is that the townspeople got tired of this magnificent creature.  The problem was, it was not as magnificent as they had always dreamed or hoped.  It shows just like a lot things in life how we cannot appreciate the subtle or even worse, the ugly, but everything we need has to be entertaining, great, and spectacular.  The only reason the family took notice of such an angel was really because it gained them such a profit and yet at the end of the story when the angel finally flew away it talks about how it was not such a burden to her anymore.  This almost seems like maybe he was a blessing in disguise.  The way that it describes how the angel was no more than an image on the horizon, maybe the angel was meant to be just that.  An image that we are meant to leave to our imagination so that we continue to appreciate what the angel stands for.  This reminds me of the story in the bible where it talks about treat even the least of these people with respect because in some way you are serving the Father up in heaven.  It’s hard to say whether the way the angel is depicted has any further significance, such as his age, health, that he was patient, ect.  If anything, this matters as to push us to want to gain an understanding of the unseen.