“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 story describes the way he is treated, misjudged and sold until he is finally strong enough to fly away from what we can call hell.

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. Throughout the story, Marquez gives his opinion about human nature, and how humans are illogical . They show ignorance and cruelty in their actions towards things that are different from what they are used to. “ A very old man with enormous wings” is a criticism of the mentality of society towards the unknown.

From the story we don’t know anything about the angel; we never discovered where is he coming from or what is he really doing. The only thing we know about him are his actions during the story and his physical description, and the reason for this is because nobody cares about t

As the story goes in progress other carnival attractions arrived in town, such as the “show of the woman who had been changed into a spider”, but you would think: Why is she not bother like the angel at all?; well the main difference is that she speaks the same language as everyone do, that makes a huge difference because in this way she can tell what happened to her, in the other hand the angel talks a complete different language so he is still an unknown in the story. For this reason the unknown factor disappears out of the topic when people discovers that they communicate the same way with the spider woman , the fact that she can communicate with them making her almost human.

During the story Garcia Marquez represents the reaction of the villagers to the unknown; cruelty towards the angel is the main reaction to him. Instead of taking care of the angel , Pelayo “ dragged him out the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wired chicken coop” just as he would an animal. And instead of helping him to get out of his prison the neighborhood was “having fun with the angel”, but the word cruelty it is not yet used to its full meaning until later on he is sold in a way; Elisenda had the idea of “fencing the yard and charging five cents admission” to see him. People tried to get his attention through throwing sto

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