Green ENG 565-01 11/19/2014 Analysis of Enormous Wings In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, a lot of things have discussed behind this story. The first one is magical realism; where it combines with real people such as Pelayo and Elisenda and their living style, and some fantasy stuff that should not be exist in the real world, but blends into this story, such as the angel and the spider woman. At the beginning of the story, the author uses a fairy-tale like description
priest, the child, and the people that came to see the angel all link to religion The angel in this story comes to the child at the beginning of the story. The angel first comes in my opinion, to take the child out of his sickness, and to come with him to heaven. But the angel changes his mind as he stays on earth longer and longer. By the end of the story, the angel decides to heal the baby, not take it away. The angel decides the father of the baby Pelayo, and the mother of the baby, Elisenda,
the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, it is. I found the story’s theme to be stating that compassion and harassment or cruelty can all be intertwined. The mother, Elisenda, decides she’s going to set the angel, who came to take her son, on a raft in the deep seas for three days rather than just killing him. She thinks this is a better idea because he still has the possibility of living. When she goes to do this she notices that everyone is fascinated by the angel
couple, Pelayo and Elisanda, who become the old man’s caretakers. The very old man had huge buzzard wings, was dirty from the mud, and half plucked (1). Dressed in rags and not at all supernatural in his appearance except for the wings and his arrival, the old man reminded the couple of a great-grandfather. Trying to comprehend by using their everyday knowledge where the old man came from in their factual reasoning by ignoring his wings, the couple determine that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign