A Collection of Atrocities Stemmed from Human Short Sight

“ A very old man with enormous wings” is a story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1955. There are a number of similarities between the area in which Marquez lived as a young boy and were he sets up his story. In both instances, there is a small coastal town and not a lot of wealth. Many of his stories seem to deal with life in an isolated environment, physically or emotionally; this might be a reflection of his childhood days. Marquez uses the angel to represent Jesus though the cruelty of the townspeople, the disbelief in the holiness of his deity, and the miracles that he performs.

First, Marquez focuses on the cruelty that is inflicted upon the angel. This is illustrated by the fact that “… he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop.” This is not the behavior that is typically thought to be acceptable when greeting strangers and certainly not the prescribed treatment for angels. However, this seems to be friendly behavior compared to what the town folk are willing to force upon God’s angel. For days later when the angel had been motionless for quite a while”… they succeed in arousing him when they b

Finally, we look toward the miracles that the angel performs, and how they parallel the ones that Jesus performed. While the angel was held captive, many people came from miles around to be healed by him. Two such people included a man with leprosy and a blind man. The angel grew flowers from the sores of the leper and three new teeth for the blind man. Jesus also was followed by many people asking Jesus to heal their various ailments. Jesus did perform many miracles where he did heal a great many people two such people were a man with leprosy and gave sight to two men that were waiting for him to come into his village.

Marquez successfully uses the angel to represent Jesus In many ways. This is illustrated by the abuse that both the angel and Jesus endure at the hands of the townspeople, and the trials that they both endure, including the different miracles and outcomes of these miracles. Marquez has truly grasped the short sight ness of humans and the atrocities that can be inflicted when man is faced with the unknown.

urned his side with an iron used for branding steers…” branding him with a fire like cattle. The implication that this presents is that they considered the angel beneath them and that they could set fi

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