The supernatural compared to the third world countries are both misunderstood by the society. Therefore they are being mistreated economically and socially. The super naturals are being expressed by magical realism. Both stories include magical elements to express treatment conveyed to the real world and the third world economy. Magical realism is the style of painting literature in which fantastic or imaginary are often unsettling images depicted to express the brutality. By combining fantasy and imaginary you can see the clear contraction of the third world society and their economical classification. The two stories Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis and Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Very old man with enormous wings both consolidate Marxism and magical
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In the Very old man with enormous wings the magical realism being described is the selfless man with wings known as an angel. The Angels qualities are being described as “dressed like a rag picker” (1) old, bald, dirty, and silent. People throwing food at him, alienating him, treating him like an animal and using him to make a profit were mistreating the Angel. This comprehends to the way we treat the third world countries. According to Marxism, the angel being at the bottom of the hierarchy, and the priest, Father Gonzaga being at the top is the socioeconomic cause in the story. The priest believes that the angel doesn’t meet the requirements in terms of religion. Father Gonzaga believes that the man with wings is not an angel, “seen close up he was too much human: he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors”(2). The hospitalization of the magical elements in Very old man with enormous wings conveys to the third world because repeatedly countries such as Africa and Latin America are being oppressed economically. They don’t get rewarded for the amount of things they do, since money is an issue. First world and second world countries such as USA, India, Japan, etc, get most of their supplements from the third world countries. This conveys to the real world, since the way they are treating the angel is soulless and homeless like. They mention that he was dressed like a ragpicker, which conveys to a homeless person in real world. The family uses the Angel as a product, and makes a profit out of
In the Very old man with enormous wings the magical realism being described is the selfless man with wings known as an angel. The Angels qualities are being described as “dressed like a rag picker” (1) old, bald, dirty, and silent. People throwing food at him, alienating him, treating him like an animal and using him to make a profit were mistreating the Angel. This comprehends to the way we treat the third world countries. According to Marxism, the angel being at the bottom of the hierarchy, and the priest, Father Gonzaga being at the top is the socioeconomic cause in the story. The priest believes that the angel doesn’t meet the requirements in terms of religion. Father Gonzaga believes that the man with wings is not an angel, “seen close up he was too much human: he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors”(2). The hospitalization of the magical elements in Very old man with enormous wings conveys to the third world because repeatedly countries such as Africa and Latin America are being oppressed economically. They don’t get rewarded for the amount of things they do, since money is an issue. First world and second world countries such as USA, India, Japan, etc, get most of their supplements from the third world countries. This conveys to the real world, since the way they are treating the angel is soulless and homeless like. They mention that he was dressed like a ragpicker, which conveys to a homeless person in real world. The family uses the Angel as a product, and makes a profit out of