Man With Enormous Wings Theme

How do you show someone that you truly love them? And how do you know that your partner feels true love for you? Unconditional love and sacrifice seems to go hand to hand as the underlying theme of love in the story A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This bizarre story shows in a abstract manner that the more you love someone or something, the more willing you are to sacrifice and suffer for them in order to make them happy. This paper will be analyzing the story to show how it is a metaphor to the story of Jesus; a man in the Christian religion who is portrayed to be the only man who knows how to truly love, and by how the old man with the very large wing is expressing his love by enduring ridicule, abandonment and neglect.

Foremost, the story of the old man follows the same progression of the story of Jesus. Jesus is sent as a mortal with the intent of giving up his life for the sake of mankind. Similarly, the old man can be viewed as an angel that was temporarily stripped of his title as an angel and sent down to Pelayo’s
The author hints that the old man is a angel; and because angels exhibit characteristics of an ideal human being, the author inadvertently suggests to the reader to base their way of showing love and affection off the way the old man shows love to Pelayo’s family. There are two main characteristics of love that the old man demonstrated that is also portrayed in the story of Jesus; the willingness to sacrifice and unconditional love. The willingness to sacrifice is the measure of how much a person values the relationship with their partner. Unconditional love shows that the reason you feel affection or feel the need to take care and protect is not compelled by the benefits or the gains you obtain from the partner. These two characteristic are vital component in determine whether you feel or if your partner feels true