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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; A Literary Analysis”
The core basis of writing at times is to entertain. There is a certain value in entertainment that is associated with certain genres in writing and the overall effect always goes a long way in giving literary works credibility. Written genres that are aimed at the sole purposes of entertainment while carrying out the mandate of educating society at times base their content on fiction. Works of fiction enable a writer to write without conforming to any expectations or a strict code and this enables them to deliver coherent quality that gives a cathartic effect to the reader while satisfying their inner desire to explore the realms of impossibility (Hanson, 21). For such purposes, this paper explores the work of fiction A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to analyze it on basis of content and form in order to understand what fiction entail and if it really meets the threshold for a work of fiction.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a short story within the fiction subset of magic realism. The story is based on an old sickly man with wings who speaks an incomprehensible language fond in the backyard by Pelayo. The story has its own realm of …show more content…
Fiction allows an artist to develop their work with little regard for reality or conforms of society. This allows them a context that is open to different interpretations as fiction has freedom from all possibilities of embedding in reality (Slemon, 61). The vehicle of delivery of the plot within writing is the characters; their actions and words as well as the traits show endeavor to illuminate the thematic concerns while embossing the creativity of the writer. The characterization in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings seeks to do the same with the writer creating a variety of
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings; A Literary Analysis”
The core basis of writing at times is to entertain. There is a certain value in entertainment that is associated with certain genres in writing and the overall effect always goes a long way in giving literary works credibility. Written genres that are aimed at the sole purposes of entertainment while carrying out the mandate of educating society at times base their content on fiction. Works of fiction enable a writer to write without conforming to any expectations or a strict code and this enables them to deliver coherent quality that gives a cathartic effect to the reader while satisfying their inner desire to explore the realms of impossibility (Hanson, 21). For such purposes, this paper explores the work of fiction A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to analyze it on basis of content and form in order to understand what fiction entail and if it really meets the threshold for a work of fiction.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a short story within the fiction subset of magic realism. The story is based on an old sickly man with wings who speaks an incomprehensible language fond in the backyard by Pelayo. The story has its own realm of …show more content…
Fiction allows an artist to develop their work with little regard for reality or conforms of society. This allows them a context that is open to different interpretations as fiction has freedom from all possibilities of embedding in reality (Slemon, 61). The vehicle of delivery of the plot within writing is the characters; their actions and words as well as the traits show endeavor to illuminate the thematic concerns while embossing the creativity of the writer. The characterization in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings seeks to do the same with the writer creating a variety of