“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” written by Gabriel Marquez, is portrayed as dreamlike quality within the fictional story. The subtitle is specified for a “tale for children” meaning there is a huge fictional side that can appeal to children and Marquez does this through symbolism. There is a universal truth is profound throughout the story; there is a conjunction of cruelty and compassion. There are also motifs used such as prosperity and suffering at another's hand. These are strongly executed through symbols, alliteration and character choice. Some of those being the angel’s wings, and his character of being mangy and parasitic, but Marquez effectively uses description and comparisons to draw out the character. There are several other cases such as saying “The world had been sad since Tuesday” (Marquez 371).
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After the old man is unable to communicate with the people and was unwilling to interact, something better comes along. The spider woman was interesting and revisioned her story multiple times to appease the audience, “people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror. She was a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden” (372). The first initial question for the reader is how could parents wish that to their daughter? That same question provides curiosity to the people wanting to pay admission to meet her. Because the girl retells her story over and over again, people are drawn in, “A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals” (374). Although the owners of the home showed no worry for the new attraction, they had already benefitted and they too had realized their angel was only short
After the old man is unable to communicate with the people and was unwilling to interact, something better comes along. The spider woman was interesting and revisioned her story multiple times to appease the audience, “people were permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd state and to examine her up and down so no one would ever doubt the truth of her horror. She was a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden” (372). The first initial question for the reader is how could parents wish that to their daughter? That same question provides curiosity to the people wanting to pay admission to meet her. Because the girl retells her story over and over again, people are drawn in, “A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals” (374). Although the owners of the home showed no worry for the new attraction, they had already benefitted and they too had realized their angel was only short