The Old Man With Wings
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has shocked the world with his stories. Whether it is the story of “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, or the story of “The Old Man with Wings,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a great yet mysterious writer. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote these two amazing short stories, about a similar topic, but with his great skills, he managed to make them different, in a very unique way. The essays three main differences for each story will be in the upcoming paragraphs. One of the clearest examples of difference is in “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.” In the story it takes about a strange man coming from the ocean, and he is dead. The villagers thought he was an enemy ship, and then they realized it had no mast or flag, so they changed their opinion to the “thing” being a whale. But when they got up close they discovered that a man had been washed up on shore. “But when it washed up on the beach they removed clumps of seaweed and jellyfish tentacles, and the remains offish and flotsam, and only then did they see that it was a handsome drowned man.” This, meaning that he would never have a chance of living again, while in
And lastly the drowned man story has a very happy ending. The women create a huge funeral for him and they get him flowers. He is paid great attention to and everyone comes to his funeral. The funeral they hold is so large that even people from neighboring villages came to witness the burial of the man. “That was how they came to hold the most splendid funeral they could conceive of an abandoned drowned man. Some women had gone to get flowers from neighboring villages, and the people of those villages followed the women to see the funeral.” The old man, had somewhat of a happy ending but it was a struggle. He barely made it away. And there were no people to congratulate him on his leaving, and nobody besides Pelayo’s wife Elisenda saw him leave. He didn’t have a celebration nobody helped him to leave. “Then she went to the window and watched an angel with its first attempt at flight. They were so clumsy that his finger nails opened a furrow in the vegetable garden, and he was on the point of knocking down the shed.” In conclusion I found these stories to be very interesting. I could tell that the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez put a lot of effort into t
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