"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a story that combines the reality of everyday life with fantasy. ... The old man with wings and the girl who turned into a spider are two examples of unreal events used to tell a story that is too strange to believe. ... The cruelty was shown instantly when they decided lock the old man up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. ... The old man became the subject to the people's taunting and people even "burned his side with an iron for branding steers.... The townspeople tortured the old man just like Christ was tortured with the cro...

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Thesis: The story, "a very old man with enormous wings," is about Pelayo and Elisenda stumbling upon an angel, keeping it for their own misuse, and in return being ungrateful and unappreciative through the course of housing this creature. Pelayo and Elisenda find this angel on the shore of their house, they take it in and at first they don't know what to do with him. ... "The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers," (291) is also another example of how mean they were to the angel. ... The author makes a good comparison ...

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A look at modern religious views: Based on "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" Gabriel Garcia Marquez constructs an intriguing story which includes more than one clear message. ... "He had to get very close to realize to see that it was a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn't get up, impeded by his enormous wings"(233). We would suspect Pelayo and Elisenda, being a good Christian couple, would take in the old man and care for him. ... Instead they ask the wise old neighbor woman what he is and what they should do with him... T...

• Word Count: 1635
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• Grade Level: High School