Although we have read many forms of writing since the semester first began, I will admit I was most intrigued by Gabriel García Márquez and his famous short novel A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. I immediately assumed this short novel would have religion as a theme due to the word "wings" in the title. Not only for this story, but for anything I begin to read, I try to make a prediction on what the writing will be about based on the title. Although I am wrong more than half of the time, it is still fun to guess. With Márquez I predicted an elderly man passing away and receiving his angel wings. Within the first page, Márquez adds in great detail of how the man’s wings were "dirty and half plucked" and where the neighbor woman said, "he's
