Have you ever seen a man fall out of the sky with wings? This happens in Gabriel Garcia’s story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. The story starts with an Old Man with Wings falling into a courtyard belonging to Pelayo and his family. He is shown off to the public, poked and plucked but finally leaves. García Marquez creates a beautiful example of magical realism by inserting Fantastic things into a seemingly everyday environment using normalization of fantastic things, the old man's wings and by explaining the reasons for the fantastic.
One way García Marquez justifies the fantastic by making it seem somewhat normal but still unusual. In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings a traveling show that visits the town with a woman who had been turned into a spider. “...there arrived in the town a traveling show of the woman who had been changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents”(P.3⅓). This shows that in the universe where this is set people who have been transformed are uncommon but not unheard of. From that point it is not too far of a jump to people with unusual additions such as wings making it somewhat normal for someone to have wings. By rationalizing the differences of the man and his wings to normal people you show him to be unusual but by showing something else similar to what you are given it …show more content…
First Gabríal Garcia makes the old man not unique to the world where this takes place using the spider woman. Secondly the old man's wings are made imperfect as to not stand out so much. Finally, Gabríal Garcia uses characters in the story to explain the presence of the man being there. Many things in everyday life can seem magical if you choose to let them be so, you just have to give them a reason to be that
One way García Marquez justifies the fantastic by making it seem somewhat normal but still unusual. In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings a traveling show that visits the town with a woman who had been turned into a spider. “...there arrived in the town a traveling show of the woman who had been changed into a spider for having disobeyed her parents”(P.3⅓). This shows that in the universe where this is set people who have been transformed are uncommon but not unheard of. From that point it is not too far of a jump to people with unusual additions such as wings making it somewhat normal for someone to have wings. By rationalizing the differences of the man and his wings to normal people you show him to be unusual but by showing something else similar to what you are given it …show more content…
First Gabríal Garcia makes the old man not unique to the world where this takes place using the spider woman. Secondly the old man's wings are made imperfect as to not stand out so much. Finally, Gabríal Garcia uses characters in the story to explain the presence of the man being there. Many things in everyday life can seem magical if you choose to let them be so, you just have to give them a reason to be that