A Very old man, with Enormous wings

This story, A Very old man with enormous wings was a very interesting story. I found myself struggling with a few concepts. It is hard to read a story like this one and relate it to real life. For example, how do we read a story and try to grasp the meaning behind it, when we are thinking about an angel. None of us have actually seen an angel (that we know of) and we usually have a concept that the angels are beautiful and flawless in image. However, this angel was not beautiful. It was an old man, who was stuck in the mud. I had to learn to read these science fiction stories with an open mind, and it has helped. There were a couple of concepts that i really liked in this story. i learned to appreciate the fact that the angel was not beautiful. I learned to appreciate the fact that the angel did not fight to get free. One would think that the angel could use its supernatural powers to break free and leave. I think that the angel was there for a purpose, in which the angel was watching over the boy. The angel and the boy both got chicken pox at the same time. The main thing that i wish to talk about is about the beauty of the angel. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We tend to classify beauty as outward, majestic, stunning, and magnificent, radiant, and more wonderful adjectives. However, beauty is much deeper. Sometimes, beauty is the suddle things in our lives, such as a butterfly flying by, or the rain falling. We think rain is nasty, but to farmers, it is beautiful. We almost think of beauty as something we get out of something. That is mainly outward beauty. Life is beautiful and if we are thinking shallow about beauty, we will miss some of the great things that God has for us in our life. We can take for granite so much in our lives. Who catches an angel and takes it for granite? They profited off of this angel, make a skeptical of it, and they neglect it until the day that it flies away.