Ickapoo is an Alien. But he is not an outcast because he is a loser. He is an outcast because he does not belong to this world, but is a giant in the World to Come,
Reading the Childhood of Jesus, one is struck by the uncanny similarities between Simon and David's experience of being brought to a new land washed clean of old ties and memories, and the Christian experience of being born again, washed clean of past sins and ties and living a new life in Christ which is arguably similar to having to learn a new language as Simon and David have to do, which is in their case, Spanish. Along these lines, it is possible to argue that the Childhood of Jesus can be read as an allegory for the Christian experience, in which old, familial blood ties matter less than the new spiritual kinships formed
