The Angel is a representative of God and the Christian faith. Angels are believed to be God's messengers and right-hand men. The narrator says, "When the child began school it had been sometime since the sun and rain had caused the collapse of the chicken coop." Not only did they throw this Angel in a chicken coop they also just let it rot around him again showing disrespect for their religious Icon. Then to go even further Pelayo and Elisenda start charging admission so people can watch the Angel in it's confined home. Now we see how the duality spreads from Pelayo and Elisenda to the rest of the town. " . . . even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing. The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned him with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead"(235). .
Are these actions of devoted Christians? How could these people justify attacking a symbol of their own religion? Forget the fact he is an Angel how could they treat anyone like this? These aren't the actions of true Christians. We would expect the people to help the Angel heal, feed it food, and give it water. True Christian love people and care for their neighbors. Instead of just saying they, will help true Christians volunteer around the world and do what they can to help the less fortunate, never do they take advantage of these people. True Christians wouldn't teat anyone with this disrespect let alone an Angel.
Pelayo and Elisenda make a great deal of money from charging people to see this great creature of God. "With the money they have saved they built a two-story mansion with balconies and gardens and high netting so that the crabs wouldn't get in during the winter, and with iron bars on the windows so that Angel's wouldn't get in"(236). This is a very repulsive statement. Why would Pelayo and Elisenda put bars on the windows to keep out Angels? The Angel has helped their family in their time of need.
