At first, it was just an ordinary life as Christian searched for the essence of life behind Philosophy and the Scriptures in this allegory. But then beliefs became so significant that they either make or break the pilgrim in his resolve to unravel the mystery of his boil-like illness and its nexus in his quest to reach the Celestial City. This story is a fiction. Any resemblance to a real-life situation is unintentional. The characters and their names are merely products of the Author's imagination.