Enormous Wings

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is short story written by a Colombian novelist named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story took place in rural era of a Caribbean Island and is about an old man who is sick and have huge wings which impeded him from getting up, he was found at the courtyard of a couple after a big storm. The old men was dirty, half- plucked and with just a few teeth left, the couple that found him was so astounded that they soon found him familiar and consequently they decided to talk to him, which the old men responded to them in a dialect. In effort of understating who he was Pelayo and Elisenda called neighbor who knew everything about live and she told them “He is an angel” who has come to take the lives of their sick child. So, the next day the neighbor insists they should kill him but Pelayo and his wife took pity on the angel and decided to preserve his life. The story contains symbolism, memorable characters and hidden messages, that make the story intriguing and a complete
In addition, sending the latter to Rome show his position, his raked in the kingdom of God, the priest is like God first hands on earth to Catholics, but the religious authority never reply to the priest letter and the community concern toward the angel. Also, another character which is quite symbolic too, is the spider woman she had been changed into spider for disobeyed her parents by going to a party. The angel loses his its attractive when she arrived at village for the carnival attractions; through her story we see how the community reaction and perception are constructed about lying and how they really are, because a soon as she arrived they all forget about old man, who they claimed was angel and ask him to heal their