Enormous Wings Magical Realism

The Story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” includes many features, which may be described as magical realism. Marquez uses magical realism to combine reality and fictional so that the difference between the two erases. Although the large man is thought to be an angel, because of his weird looks and awkward nature the townspeople treat him poorly. This shows people are incapable of looking past something's cover and into what it really is. Through the use of magical realism, Marquez shows us the absurdity of people's reactions and misunderstanding of the unknown.
They abuse the old man because he does not meet the public’s stereotypes for how a “normal” person should look and act. Since people have never seen anything like this before, they …show more content…
The townspeople were so fascinated by the spider girl because she was able to talk and they were able to ask her all sorts of questions. She tells the townspeople of how she became a spider, by sneaking out of her parents’ house to go to a dance and on the way back home through the woods a lightning bolt came down and turned her into a spider. The spider girls simple pandering is favored than to the Angel's mysterious privacy and patience. Marquez uses magical realism to show that when you disobey your parents there can be …show more content…
They redesign their whole house but they ignore the chicken coop, they leave the coop unattended. They washed it down with creolin and burned tears of myrrh inside so that it wouldn’t smell so bad. Pelayo and Elisenda child is beginning to walk they were really careful to not the child get close to the chicken coop. They began to lose their fears and started to get used to the smell, the child had then went into the chicken coop where the wires were falling apart. The angel and the child both came down with the chicken pox and the doctor came to care for the child and the angel and listening to the angel’s heart which sounded like it had holes in it, the doctor wondered how the angel can even be alive.
The sun and rain cause the chicken coop to collapse and the angel was free to roam around their land and home. Getting into the house the bedrooms and they had to get him out with a broom. December came and the angel started to grow his wings back, one morning Elisenda looked through the window and saw that the angel was trying to fly. He did gain a little altitude but he couldn’t grip on the air. Elisenda gave a relief sigh for herself and him, she kept watching him until she couldn’t see the angel anymore. The angel was no longer a bother in her life “but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the