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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

            
             The story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes the life of a particular angel. He was an angel who was being treated like a circus animal; he didn't appear to be an angel and he spent most of his time trying to get comfortable around his new surroundings. Its surprising that appearance can alter the thinking of almost anyone, to think that even an angel that looks quite beat up can be mistreated.
             He was an angel who was being treated like a circus animal. When Pelayo and his wife Elisenda saw the body of an old man lying face down in the mud, they took him into there house. Pelayo "dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop". Needless to say that even an angel is being "dragged", such an unethical and barbaric behavior especially toward an angel. It wasn't long before the whole neighborhood surrounded the chicken coop, they tossed him breakfast leftovers and fruit peels as if he were a "circus animal" rather then a supernatural being. During the first days he was at the house, the hens pecked at him, searching for parasites under his wing, and the merciful even threw rocks at him, trying to get him to stand up. Elisenda began to shout at the angel when he appeared all over the house from the bedroom to the kitchen floor, she became very frustrated and impatient.
             He didn't appear to be an angel. His wings seemed natural completely human organic, even though they were torn with only a few feathers left. When the priest, Father Gonzaga was called to examine the angel, he remarked him as being a "decrepit hen" amongst the fascinated chickens. The father spoke to him in Latin and was suspicion of an imposter when the angel did not understand the language of God or how to greet a minister. After all the sunlight and the rain drops the chicken coop fell over and the angel had no other shelter, so he decided to drag himself here and there like a stray drying man.


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