The description of the weather when the Angel is found very vividly paints a picture of the mood in Pelayo's house that day. "The world had been sad since Tuesday." Is the text, while Elisenda had been nursing a sick child that they feared might die. The sea and sky had come together in a foreboding leaden gray that squeezed all hope from anyone subjected to it. The sea itself, seen as a life giving, sustenance providing entity, has risen up to threaten a helpless child to Elisenda. The crabs that provided food and retail value, are now a cause for the child's sickness. The neighbor woman even says the Angel must have been coming for the child. This shows how the thought processes were turning in reverse.

To compare the Angel's flight to that of a Buzzard is another of those symbols Marquez uses to signify the church. A buzzard is a scavenger that lives off the frailties of others. It is a shame to say that in some cases the church has done the same thing. Living off the hopes and dreams of people that have no other reason for life. God, so wants us to depend on Him, and He will give us what we need. When we on the other hand give that dependence to a man, even a preacher, father, or some other symbol of the church we set ourselves up for the parasitical, unscrupulous people that put themselves in a position of trust. This doesn't just happen in the church, but when it does it makes headline news.

The disheveled appearance is also representative of the bankruptcy of the heart of God. God in His infinite grace and wisdom has still grown weary of a world where even His representatives have turned to butchering everything the name of God stands for. There are precedents for this thought by the author. God destroyed the earth by flood for the wickedness of man in Genesis 6. He also wanted to destroy the Hebrews when talking with Moses on mount Sinai in Exodus 32. Today's church has continually tested the grace of God in perverting His word to allow things that are expressly forbidden. Some denominations are saying that the reason for Sodom and Gamorrah's destruction was not homosexuality, but simply being inhospitable to strangers. By changing this text they allow for homosexuals to be not only Christians, but even clerics in the church. Yet the very word sodomy comes from the literal translation of the story.

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