Un Senor Muy Viejo Con Las Alas Enormes

Deby Gomez

ENG 111

Professor Mathew

11 February 2013

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez claims that sometimes good things came into our life disguised of “problems” and sometimes people are carried away by appearances taking the lessons with a bad attitude and leaving people overcome to the problem making the mistake of take it as an advantage of achievement. Supporting his idea with examples of attitudes by the characters, description of the scenario, and daily language included in the story. In the story

Daily Language: Gabriel Garcia Marquez agrees when he writes, “He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down” Basically, Marquez is pointing out with this example the naturalness of the words to describe something incredible or magical using as a principal technique. Magic realism, setting

Symbols: Marquez states, “He was dressed like a rag picker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great- grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had.” In other words, Marquez is using this description to explain different symbols such as poverty, humility, neglect in this character to make the audience feel mercy and at the

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