A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

During this story the reader is made to believe the impossible and even unordinary is an everyday occurrence to the people in the story. A creature with enormous wings appears and rather than panic, these people semi-invite the creature into their lives as if it happens all the time or has happened before. The author embeds a crazy tale into everyday life so the reader can connect and stay interested. In the beginning ‘The very old man with enormous wings’ Pelayo discovers a homeless, bewildered old man in his yard who happens to have very large wings. The old man is filthy and apparently senile, and speaks an unintelligible language. After talking to their neighbor, Pelayo and his wife, Elisenda figure that the old man confused, dirty and senile man must be an angel who had tried to come and take their sick child to heaven. The neighbor tells Pelayo that he should kill the angel but instead Pelayo and his wife decide to keep him so their sick child can recover.
Pelayo and Elisenda keep the old man in their chicken coop, the longer the old man stays the more people he attracts. The local priest comes to examine the “angel” he tells Pelayo and his wife, he can’t be an angel because he …show more content…
In Gabriel Gárcia Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," the people all believe in angels; and believe he is one right away but the moral of the story is sometimes just because we have an idea of the way something should be, isn’t how it is. Angels in our mind don’t smell, they aren’t old or filthy, their wings are glorious trophies, not dilapidated feathers. The author doesn’t have to make us believe he is an angel because in our minds he already is, the author’s job was to give us different perspectives on what we believe to be