“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” was written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1968. There are a few different ways of analyzing a story I will be using three different styles to get a better understanding of the story and what I think the author meant the true meaning to be. First by looking into the life of the writer and the time period in which the story is written one can see the influences they had on the story, the second is to analyze the short story critically, and lastly is to look at what others think the meaning of the short story is after their own research on the short and author.
For writers many things can influence a story as they write it for instants things they have gone through in their past, and current events during the time they are writing. Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6th 1928 in a small town of …show more content…
Gabriel García Márquez was the son of a telegraph operator and one of six children. Gabriel was close to his grandmother because for the first eight years of his life she raised him, and it was the story tell from his grandmother that planted the seed for a life of writing stories. Gabriel’s grandmother told him stories of “he long decline of Aracataca, and the myths and superstitions of the townspeople” ("Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez."). “For a time he studied law in Bogotá” (Márquez, Gabriel García) he studied there until the civil war in Bogotá forced the school to close. After the university closed “he transferred to the University of Cartagena, simultaneously working as a journalist” ("Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez."). Gabriel became a good writer and storyteller because of his job as a journalist. This is where his was able to work on and refine the craft of writing and storytelling. In 1950 Gabriel finally discovered that he was not want to be a lawyer but a writer and stopped his study of law. He instead “moved to Barranquilla to work for the
For writers many things can influence a story as they write it for instants things they have gone through in their past, and current events during the time they are writing. Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6th 1928 in a small town of …show more content…
Gabriel García Márquez was the son of a telegraph operator and one of six children. Gabriel was close to his grandmother because for the first eight years of his life she raised him, and it was the story tell from his grandmother that planted the seed for a life of writing stories. Gabriel’s grandmother told him stories of “he long decline of Aracataca, and the myths and superstitions of the townspeople” ("Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez."). “For a time he studied law in Bogotá” (Márquez, Gabriel García) he studied there until the civil war in Bogotá forced the school to close. After the university closed “he transferred to the University of Cartagena, simultaneously working as a journalist” ("Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez."). Gabriel became a good writer and storyteller because of his job as a journalist. This is where his was able to work on and refine the craft of writing and storytelling. In 1950 Gabriel finally discovered that he was not want to be a lawyer but a writer and stopped his study of law. He instead “moved to Barranquilla to work for the