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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• Grade Level: High School

Ramon Diaz de Leon "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" tells a story about a winged man who falls in a fishing town where he is kept as a circus animal. ... The plot of the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" revolves around the character of a winged man who has fallen to earth, but even though the story revolves around this character, the story's true focus is not on the angel, but on the people that get involved around this man. ... They show ignorance and cruelty in their actions towards things that are different from what ...

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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings-, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place- written by Ernest Hemingway. ... This theme of old age draws parallels to the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings-. ... This can be again seen in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings-. ... The line, "a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity."" (151) is climatic to Hemingway's expression of the old man. This idea is reflected in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings-. ...

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• Grade Level: High School