Theological Response: C.

Misuse of Light

I saw grace in Mel, and the girl who brought the camera into his shop. Mel is a vehicle of grace to the girl after she gets really depressed, finding out about her grandfather and how he didn’t save her grandmother. Mel shows her all these little details in the photographs, like that she was mouthing for her grandfather to save the camera, and these details gave her back her faith in her grandfather whom she loved very much. The girl brought grace to Mel because by bringing in the camera with the old film she gave him something to be interested in. After he found out all of the bad things said about the girl’s grandfather, he kept researching and found a way to make him good again to the girl. The girl was the reason Mel did all the extra research, she motivated him to help her in a sense.
The grace is accepted and in the end Mel and the girl both seems to be at peace with everything. There is a conversion in the story, and it occurs when the girls’ mother comes into the camera shop to talk to Mel. The girl was destroyed after reading the bad articles about her grandfather so her mother came in to scold Mel. She told him that he shouldn’t research into other people’s business like that, and dig up old news. I think Mel kind of realized that what he does with old negatives is kind of strange. The conversation with the girls’ mother moved him to find good in the pictures and prove the articles wrong. Grace was also delivered through the girls’ mother at this point; Mel needed it, to realize what he had to do.