Downfall

     Where do I even begin.  I was a little confused by the story in the beginning, in like the first page and a half.  But then it got to a point where one of the characters said, "He's an angel."  Then I understood a bit more.  I thought is sad that the angel was an old crippled man who was stuck in the mud and unable to move himself.  Then the husband and wife, Pelayo and Elisenda captured him and locked him up.  At that point I was confused on who these two people were.  Why did they throw him into the wire chicken coop?  That was a question I was asking myself.  But then even when I kept reading after the angel dried his wings and stepped out of the coop and spoke a sermon, it mentioned that because of the news he was telling them about the devil and carnivals, and writing a letter to his bishop so then that person can write a letter to the latter and so on, they called in the troops and mob.  The wife was going to cage him in and charge admission for the neighborhood to come and see him. But is he really an angel?  That  is what the neighborhood would like to believe, because that is what they see.  But is it true?  I asked myself that question a couple times.  I mean on page 1061, he says, "If wings were not the essential element in determining the difference between a hawk and an airplane they were even less so in the recognition of angels."  So to me that says like he is saying that having wings does not only mean that he is an angel, that that is not the only factor in determining who he is or what he is.  It never really comes to a conclusion, I don't think, on if he was an angel or not.  It does say that in the end, he grew new harder wings that he hid for a while, and then flew away when they fully grew in.  The neighborhood was so happy that he left, it was as if a burden was lifted off their shoulders.