"A good man is hard to find" by Flannery O'Connor and "A very old man with enormous wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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…made them cruel towards him. The townspeople were also to blame in this act of cruelty. They treated the angel as if he were a circus animal. They ridiculed and mistreated him, but feared him at the same time. Ignorance can be bliss; however, in some cases it can be ultimately malicious. When a person or a group of people does not understand something, either they try to examine it profusely or simply destroy it.