A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

The old man is just a man. He has no special powers and has the normal appearance of a man, with the exception of his wings. The only thing known about this man is that he speaks an unknown language and can just barely fly. And also, as he is locked up and having stuffed thrown at him, an angel might have the power to break free. But perhaps this is just what the man wants the people to think. Although angels are not able to lie, they don’t have to advertize the truth. So in order to not give proof to people’s suspicions that the man is an angel, the man chooses to not do anything out of normal. And the fact that as an angel he doesn’t try to escape from his prison-like home may show that he is there for a purpose. After he comes, the son gets better and the crabs go away. The wings also prove to be just enough to get people interested in the old man so the family has a chance to charge admission and make a small fortune. Conveniently, after things get noticeably better for the family, a spider-girl traveling with a group comes into town. Naturally as she entertains the people more with her story, versus just sitting and doing nothing, everyone stops going to see the angel. This gives the angel a chance to leave and fly back to where ever he came from. The mystery of this man makes it very hard to distinguish for sure whether or not he is just a man or in fact an angel. Since he does not have the divinity and grace of a true angel, but yet he is not just a normal man, this comes to the conclusion that he may be a fallen-angel. He may be stuck on earth but trying to obtain God’s forgiveness to enter heaven again by helping those in need. Another hint that he is a fallen-angel could be the symbolism in the very beginning of the story when Pelayo finds the old man fallen in the mud unable to get up. "He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings."

Cathedral

The narrator’s voice is definitely male because the whole reason he knows the blind man is through his wife. The thought of the blind man touching his wife just to see what she looks like bothers him. “She told me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, her nose-even her neck!” Also, the blind man calls the Narrator ‘Bud.’

This I believe in Nursury Rhymes

Angelina Jolie finally gave birth to her twins in France. It’s about time because people have been waiting for this for weeks. Now I’m going to get to play with them and feed them. Wait… I don’t know Angelina Jolie, or her babies, so why do I care when she gives birth? Why do I even care if she moves to France? I don’t have to move to France. I love Angelina’s movies, but once she leaves the screen, she’s like a fictional character that I only really know from magazines and movies. She’s almost like a cartoon character. ‘Yesterday, Bradgalina went to Africa and adopted another child.’ And in the mean time, while I’m reading about how Stephanie Pratt went on a date with Lauren Conrad’s ex-boyfriend on the Hills, my niece is crying cause she just fell down and hit her head. She stands up and says “uh-oh,” and I never realized that she could talk. And all of a sudden I wanted to watch my niece’s nursery rhymes with her more that read about Will Smith spending time with his daughter at the beach on July 24.
So this I believe: People should pay attention to their own lives instead of obsessing over the lives of others. People should not take the privacy that we thrive off of, away from someone else and then point and laugh. And more importantly, I believe when faced with the choice of nursery rhymes and Hollywood, we should chose nursery rhymes every time.

Quotes About Life

Three-way tie:

April: “I don’t know and I don’t know how to know, ya know?”
-Definitely, Maybe

Leonardo da Vinci: “You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.”

Danielle De Barbarac: “If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?”
-Ever after