For me,
theis not that the old man that shows up on
the beach one day in "" (by )with the potential to be an angeland is treated shabbily
because of his appearance. That is not a surprise. The irony is that even
as they see themselves as people of faithas does the town priestthey are all blind to the fact
that angel or not, the old man is God's creature.
There
is a strong parallel here with the story of Christwho was rejected by his own people because
they had anticipated a Messiah of great power who
would destroy the Romans, their oppressors. Jesus comes, rather, as a peacemaker; because he is
not who they expect him to be, the people turn on him and kill
him.
While the people in this story stop short of killing the old man (though
it does enter into conversation), they fail to treat him like a heavenly
creature because he defies their expectations.
Alien to
the impertinences of the world, he only lifted his...
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