1. He thought that the stench odor of the crabs that they were killing was causing the child
to have a fever.
2. It is a figurative way of saying that it's been raining non stop since Tuesday.
3. The old man was described to have the appearance of a rag picker, there was a few
faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth. He was old and dirty
and half plucked in the mud.
4. They decided that the old man was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked
by the storm.
5. The neighbor woman thinks that the old man was a flesh-and-blood angel who had
come to take the child.
6. The woman thought that the angels were fugitive survivors of a spiritual conspiracy.
7. They decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days
and leave him to his fate on the high seas.
8. Gonzaga speaks to the man in latin because it is the language of God.
Gonzaga believes that the old man is an imposter and is nothing of God but the devil.
9. Elisenda decides to cage the old man and charge the neighbors that have come to see
him 5 cents.
10. The descriptions of two visitors, one was a poor woman who since childhood has been
counting her heartbeats and had run out of numbers, a Portuguese man who couldn’t
sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him.
11. The wise woman tried to feed the old man moth balls because they were the food
prescribed for angles.
12. The cripples pulled out the feathers to touch their defective parts.
13. They had thrown rocks and burned his side with an iron for branding steers to see if he
was still alive because he looked like he was dead.
14. Two superstitions that the people and Gonzaga had put on the old man was is he had a
navel and if his dialect had any connection to Aramaic.
15. The new carnival attraction that stole the spotlight from the angel was the woman who
had been changed to a spider for disobeying her parents.
16. The two reasons that the people went to visit the woman was because it was full of
human truth and with a fearful lesson also because of her sadness and her appearance.
17. Three miracles that the angel performed incorrectly was the blind man who did not
recover his sight but grew three teeth, the paralytic who didn't get walk but almost won
the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers.
18. Pelayo and Elisenda built a two story mansion with balconies and gardens and high
netting so that crabs wouldn't get in the during the winter,and with iron bars on the
windows so that angels wouldn’t get in.
19. The thing that happened to the old man and the child was that they both got chicken
pox.
20. Elisenda let out a sigh of relief “or herself and for him”was because he was no longer an
annoyance in her life but an imaginary do on the horizon of the sea.