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

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Angels are usually portrayed as beautiful creatures with striking appearance who possesses intelligence and healing abilities. However, the angel in the short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a “fallen body with mute stupor…. and dressed like a ragpicker” (Marquez 353). In the story, the readers learn about the journey of this unfortunate creäture that encounters humans, who treated him ferociously, after falling from the sky on a rainy day. The imagery of the ugly and old angel symbolizes as the beauty in the ugly that sometimes people fail to see. People can’t overlook the dirt and ragged edges of things, nevertheless, something beautiful can come out of a bad situation. The angel was an annoyance to the couple at first and brought fear, not only to them but to the neighborhood. But at the end, the angel helped the owners of the house prosper throughout the years he remained in the cruel civilization of humans. …show more content…

The town seems really gloomy and out of life. The sky had sucked out the life of the whole village and washed it all to the beach with the rain. Because of the rain, the sand that once "glimmered like a powdered light" on March nights is now abandoned by people who once loved it because it “had become a stew of mud and rotten selfish” (Marquez 353). This imagery created a picture of a desolate village. However, everything changed when a mysterious "very old man" found its way at Pelayo and Elisenda’s

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