A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENOURMOUS WINGS

The “very old man” is described as a different and unique creature. Marquez describes this character as “dressed like a rag-picker” (361), “having a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth” (361), and with “huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked” (361). The character’s description is quite different from the norm. He is so unique that all of the characters who come in contact with the “very old man” “looked … with mute stupor” (361) and for a very long time. All of this staring leads to the development of misunderstanding.

Since the “very old man” is different, the other charact

The characters became so obsessed with the “very old man” that they began to develop a ridiculous idea that he had extraordinary healing powers. Curious individuals with various ailments came to visit the “very old man” in hope of being healed. It is somewhat unbelievable, but these individuals can easily develop ridiculous ideas and persuade others to believe a phenomenon. These ideas tend to lack support and contain insufficient evidence. Marquez truly proves that individuals can act in a ridiculous, ignorant manner around individuals who don’t meet the so-called norms of society.

While at boarding school, Marquez stood out among his classmates. He was an introvert who spent the majority of his time in isolation. He spent a significant amount of time writing poems and drawing cartoons. Since he was extremely serious and non-athletic, his classmates began to nickname him “the old man”. This might have been where Marquez must have picked up the idea to have his character “a very old man”. Marquez must have felt that his classmates were taunting him. He probably kept all this verbal abuse within him until he became a writer. As a writer he was then able to express his pain.

ers begin to become abusive and cruel. The abusive and cruelty begins when the “very old man” is “held captive” (361). He is locked up in a chicken coop. Soon thereafter, people from all over begin to visit the chicken coop to mortify and cu

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