The subtitle “A Tale for Children” is not a suitable subtitle for the short story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, since the story displays that things that are different are bad and should be treated negatively. When Pelayo sees the old man for the first time, he becomes “[f]rightened by that nightmare” (1). Pelayo’s reaction to the old man is prejudiced and close minded, instantly judging the old man by the way he looks and was dressed. Pelayo and Elisenda immediately made biased observations about the man, saying that “[h]e was dressed as a ragpicker” (1). Pelayo and Elisenda saw that the old man looked different and chose to think of him as less than human. This teaches a bad lesson to children because it teaches
