There exists in this world a wild form of partition of which not everyone is aware of. I have, in my short lifetime, been witness to these and more. I can claim a certain disillusionment of life when I think of those everyday occurrences in this journey we go through towards eternity. But the little miracles which render us awestruck in wonderment are enough to balance the disappointments and fulfillments. .
An example of this could be found in the story Footfalls by W.D.Steele. The work focuses generally on the idea of revenge, yet tackles the most mind-boggling concepts of human nature. .
The first lines of the story were enough to catch anybody's attention. A caution to the readers about the stark reality of such unreal plot. The footfalls may be the cracks of wisdom that would mark the grounds of a reader's thinking. The story may be hard and sunless but just like the blind Boaz, it holds the vast truth we are all in search of. .
The blind cobbler who becomes the story's hero is representative of those who we deem less deserving, less human than us. Ironically, it is they who know more, who comprehend more. Perhaps this is what Footfalls is, a vague awakenng we cannot grasp easily, a slippery truth we learn a bit too late. Thankfully, it is a truth we have learned. .
Boaz Negro's name suggests a certain description of the kind of man he is. Boaz, not unlike the Biblical character who figured with generosity, a sandal and Ruth, was a positive man of a refreshing disposition. Negro stands witness to the fact that the man has a serious disadvantage, his blindness. Although written decades after the slaves have been emancipated, human nature prevents total equality between black and white. This being true, we, as readers, have been treated into a peek at how society sees Boaz Negro. .
As we are here viewing the world through society's eyes, an advantage Boaz has sadly been deprived of, we may see Campbell Wood as how he appeared to be, rising, incorruptible "a gentleman through and through.
