Comparing A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings And The Nose

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Have you ever woke up and noticed that your nose is gone? Or seen a very old man with enormous wings? Well in The Nose and A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings both are magical realism short stories with outlandish events in them.
In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and The Nose have people committing sins. Elisenda and Pelayo exploit the old man and use him as attraction to get money. The sin Elisenda and Pelayo commit is greed and keep using the for their own benefit. At the end of The Nose Kovalev gets his nose back and starts comparing his nose with other men. The sin Kovalev commited is pride and Kovalev has a lot of satisfaction in his nose.
The old man healed Elisenda and Pelayo’s child from a fever when he first arrived at the the island.

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