Compare And Contrast The Common Ground Of The Story In A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Essay Questions
1. Compare and contrast the common ground of the stories in Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and the Continuity of Parks.
In the story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, the reality is a child is sick. It was thought because of the rains and many crabs in the house that were killed. Also, because of the stink. It was decided to throw the crabs away. They feared this was what was making the child sick. The magical realm is the fallen angle with “his huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-lucked were forever entangle in the mud’ (Marquez 1) found by Pelayo and Elisenda. In the story, The Continuity of Parks, the reality is a man begins reading a novel and after being in contact with his manager. Cortazar writes, he “Sprawled
in his favorite armchair, with his back to the door, which would otherwise have bother him as an irritating possibility for intrusion, his left hand once again caress once and again the green velvet upholstery” (Ellison 1). The magical realm in this story is that the man in the green velvety upholstery chair is the man who is reading the novel. “He went up the three porch steps and entered’(Cortazar). Cortazar, the author at this point is setting up the phenomenal ending of “the head of the man in the chair reading a novel’.
So in comparing and contracting I have found that both are in their own way reality and fantasy.
1. Compare and contrast the common ground of the stories in Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and the Continuity of Parks.
In the story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, the reality is a child is sick. It was thought because of the rains and many crabs in the house that were killed. Also, because of the stink. It was decided to throw the crabs away. They feared this was what was making the child sick. The magical realm is the fallen angle with “his huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-lucked were forever entangle in the mud’ (Marquez 1) found by Pelayo and Elisenda. In the story, The Continuity of Parks, the reality is a man begins reading a novel and after being in contact with his manager. Cortazar writes, he “Sprawled
in his favorite armchair, with his back to the door, which would otherwise have bother him as an irritating possibility for intrusion, his left hand once again caress once and again the green velvet upholstery” (Ellison 1). The magical realm in this story is that the man in the green velvety upholstery chair is the man who is reading the novel. “He went up the three porch steps and entered’(Cortazar). Cortazar, the author at this point is setting up the phenomenal ending of “the head of the man in the chair reading a novel’.
So in comparing and contracting I have found that both are in their own way reality and fantasy.