Imaaaagination

    Why did the neighbor women tell Pelayo and Elisenda to club the very old man with enormous wings to death? This is the one thing that I cannot grasp in this story. Everything else makes somewhat of some sense to me, other than the fact that I see no moral or message behind this story. But wait! Now that I think about it, there is a message behind this story. Everyone in the story thought this "angel" was sick... but maybe this angel was not sick, maybe he was faking to be sick. Here is the thinking behind my conclusion. Since this story is a tale for children, I have to think and have a wild imagination like a child. The family had something bad coming to them all along. Everything points to this. The weather had been terrible for 3 straight days; the water had washed tons of crabs into Pelayo and Elisenda's house and was making the newborn child sick. So this angel fakes that he is sick and lands in the courtyard. God or whoever was giving the angel directions new that if the family kept living in the same house, the child would die. So it was God who told this odd looking angel to do this. God knew that the appearance of this special angel would cause such curiosity and hype that people from all over would come to see this being. Because the people were so interested, the family knew charging a fee to see the creature wasn't out of the question. The family raises enough money to upgrade houses. This saves the child’s life because when it rains the crabs will not wash up into the house thus causing fever and sickness. Once the hype from this angel's appearance settles down, because God knew the people would not be interested in this for too long, the angel’s mission is complete. So the neighbor woman does make sense now. Every child’s tale seems to have a protagonist and antagonist. Although this story required a lot of imagination, the antagonist was the women who represented an angel of death. She wanted to kill the protagonist, the old man with enormous wings (angel from God).