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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

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Envision yourself learning the magical ways of a curandera, or finding an angel in your very own town without surprise. Fantasize a humongous, handsome man the size of a ship washing from the shore. These all could be described as magical realism stories. Magical Realism is the binding of the ordinary in life with magical aspects in a way that makes it seem normal. In the short story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, it displays the elements of the magical and the mundane are interwoven seamlessly. Then, in the short story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” and the book, Bless Me, Ultima, they are set in an otherwise ordinary world with familiar historical and/or cultural realities, that do not always abide by universal laws or familiar logic. Lastly, in the book, Bless Me, Ultima and the short story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children”, the stories bear the influences of oral tradition such as fables, myths, tall tales, urban legends, and a charmed story telling narrator.
To begin, in the story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children”, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reveals the aspects of magical and the normal are combined ordinarily. In this short story, it describes the angel had “huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked were forever entangled in mud.” Then Pelayo and Elisenda, the family that found the angel, “looked at him so long and

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