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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a short story that was first published in 1955. Garcia Marquez wrote this story in the genre of magical realism. This short story has a powerful purpose to represent how humans react to the unknown. It shows us different perspectives of how mankind approaches something new. We see throughout the story how everyone reacts to the so-called “angel” in a different way. He is treated poorly by almost everyone because he is not what everyone perceives an angel to be like. Garcia Marquez gives us an image of a figure that is very weak and does not give the usual perception of an angel, and because of the previous perceptions of the people in the town, they do

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