There is an old saying: “You should never judge a book by its cover.” In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,” that is precisely what all of the characters do; each character makes their first judgement on the man with enormous wings based on how he appears to them. It is not until the man with wings has lived with Pelayo and his family for some time that they learn more about what exactly he is and what he to them for. It is often easy for someone to make assumptions about someone based on how they look and act.
Most every important character in the story makes their first assumptions about the old man with enormous wings is based strictly on how he appears. “He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful …show more content…
Pelayo and Elisenda being the first characters to make assumptions after hearing him speak for the first time. They “intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm” because they thought he had “an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice.” Only a few scenes later in the story, Father Gonzaga makes an assumption about the old man with wings based on the way he speaks as well. He decided to speak to the angel in Latin, what he assumed to be the language of God. Because the old man did not understand what the priest said, the priest had “suspicion of an imposter,” meaning there is no way that this “creature” was an angel. After he makes this assumption, he reminds the crowd surrounding the coop that the devil has disguised the man as a “carnival trick” in order to confuse the people who do not know any better. Towards the closing of the story, Pelayo and his family have found that the only thing that ever made him seem as if he was an angel was his “patience of a dog who had no
Most every important character in the story makes their first assumptions about the old man with enormous wings is based strictly on how he appears. “He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful …show more content…
Pelayo and Elisenda being the first characters to make assumptions after hearing him speak for the first time. They “intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm” because they thought he had “an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice.” Only a few scenes later in the story, Father Gonzaga makes an assumption about the old man with wings based on the way he speaks as well. He decided to speak to the angel in Latin, what he assumed to be the language of God. Because the old man did not understand what the priest said, the priest had “suspicion of an imposter,” meaning there is no way that this “creature” was an angel. After he makes this assumption, he reminds the crowd surrounding the coop that the devil has disguised the man as a “carnival trick” in order to confuse the people who do not know any better. Towards the closing of the story, Pelayo and his family have found that the only thing that ever made him seem as if he was an angel was his “patience of a dog who had no