A Very Old Man With Enourmous Wings
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is filled with fantastic and magical events that employ "magical realism" into a primitive story. Avery old man with enormous wings is found outside Pelayo's home, the same night his son is very sick. There are hidden clues that eventually lead the reader to think that the old man is a symbolic significance of Pelayo's son. This story transcends the bounds of known reality. In this make- believe story, Marquez conceived characters that keep the reader balancing on a rope of reality and disbelief.
Sometimes an author chooses to create a story that is entirely impossible. Marquez also uses allegorical devices in his characters and the way that they react to the old man with the enormous wings to show truthfulness in a deeper meaning. The towns' people placed their faith on the old man as soon as they began thinking he was an angel, because he was supernatural they thought he could be their leader and savior. There is much likeness in today's world with the way that people choose other humans to lead their country although they might be just as or even far more imperfect than they are. In the story, you didn't always know if the old man was an angel or a human and people were amazed by him at first but when a bigger attraction came to town, they forgot about him completely. In today's world people pick presidents and leaders, they praise them and are amazed with them at first but in years coming they find that they are human and therefore unable to fulfill the expectations, and as soon as a "better" candidate comes along, déjavu all over again.
In the story, the parents who found the old man don't pay attention to him and lock him up with the chickens, which might also signify the way that many parents don't pay enough attention to their children because they are too busy with the every day life. When the Angel grew his wings and...
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