A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings reading reaction
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Reading Reaction
The short story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, is written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is a story containing lots of imagery and symbolism, and sheds light on the cruelty of human nature. With those elements, Marquez wrote a perfect magical realism story, everything from the setting, to the smell of the town’s air is put under the microscope. The story starts off at what many would guess is a small town off the coast somewhere in Colombia; Marquez’s home country. On a piece of property right off the sea lives a named Pelayo and Elisenda, and their child. The town in which Pelayo and Elisenda reside is cursed with heavy amounts of rainfall and flooding. After three days of rain the couple had killed countless crabs that had washed into their home. The smell of dead crab and other shell fish filled the air, this vile stench is what they believe is causing their child to have such a terrible sickness. On that third day Pelayo was on his way back into his home after throwing away crabs, and he heard moaning coming from the corner of his flooded courtyard. With further investigation he finds an old man. The old man was brittle, sickly, and bald besides a few stringy lengths of hair. Remarkably he also had a pair of wings. The wings were nearly featherless, and were covered in parasites however, and were tangled up in the mud that the old man despite his efforts, was laying in face down. Pelayo cautiously took a better look, and then shot towards his home grab his wife. Pelayo and Elisenda took their time looking over the old man, and as their fear left they decided to as the neighboring woman about what to do. In the story the narrator proclaims the neighboring woman is believed to know everything about life and death. After the woman looks the man with the enormous wings of an ugly vulture, she proclaims he is in fact an angel. Pelayo decides to lock up the angle in the chicken coop,
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Reading Reaction
The short story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, is written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is a story containing lots of imagery and symbolism, and sheds light on the cruelty of human nature. With those elements, Marquez wrote a perfect magical realism story, everything from the setting, to the smell of the town’s air is put under the microscope. The story starts off at what many would guess is a small town off the coast somewhere in Colombia; Marquez’s home country. On a piece of property right off the sea lives a named Pelayo and Elisenda, and their child. The town in which Pelayo and Elisenda reside is cursed with heavy amounts of rainfall and flooding. After three days of rain the couple had killed countless crabs that had washed into their home. The smell of dead crab and other shell fish filled the air, this vile stench is what they believe is causing their child to have such a terrible sickness. On that third day Pelayo was on his way back into his home after throwing away crabs, and he heard moaning coming from the corner of his flooded courtyard. With further investigation he finds an old man. The old man was brittle, sickly, and bald besides a few stringy lengths of hair. Remarkably he also had a pair of wings. The wings were nearly featherless, and were covered in parasites however, and were tangled up in the mud that the old man despite his efforts, was laying in face down. Pelayo cautiously took a better look, and then shot towards his home grab his wife. Pelayo and Elisenda took their time looking over the old man, and as their fear left they decided to as the neighboring woman about what to do. In the story the narrator proclaims the neighboring woman is believed to know everything about life and death. After the woman looks the man with the enormous wings of an ugly vulture, she proclaims he is in fact an angel. Pelayo decides to lock up the angle in the chicken coop,
References: Marquez, G. G. (1968). A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings .