A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Literary Analysis of A Very middle-aged Man with large Wings When Pelayo and Elisend first find the fallen man, they regard him as valet de chambre, he is dressed standardised a ragpicker (McFarland). Gabriel Garcia Marquez short invention A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a fabulous discussion report about an backer in pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather with Huge turkey buzzard wings (Marquez 294). Marquez uses dissemblingal realism to express the literary elements of the grey-headed man, in third mortal point of view, and with several interpretations.In the short theme, Marquez tests two major elements of magic realism. The two elements were the senile man and, the girl who has been turned into a spider. The citizenry in the story treat the honest-to-god man as an oddity. He was not treated equivalent an angel instead he was treated more(prenominal) like a freak of nature. The one-time(a) man appears to be nothing more than a frail gentle wit h wings, and so his status as an angel is endlessly debated. What surprised him the most, however, was the logic of his wings.They seemed so natural on that completely benevolent organism that he couldnt understand why other men didnt have them too (Marquez 298). Father Gonzaga thinks that he cannot be an angel because he lacks dignity and splendor. Father Gonzaga went into the chicken coop and said good morning to him in Latin. The parish priest had his first suspicion of an imposter when he saw that he did not understand the language of god (Marquez 295). Of course this begs the inquiry of whether the angel lacks dignity, or whether he just lacks dignity because of the way he is treated, cosmos gaol in a chicken coop.Perhaps it is the people who lack dignity, not the old man. The old mans other supernatural characteristic is his incredible patience in the flavour of his treatment which does not make much of an impression on the majority of the people, who atomic number 18 ha ppy to exploit him until bored with him. The magic realism for Spider-Girl is a make believe contrast with the Old Man whereas, he is difficult to interpret because he is not trying to please the crowd. The Spider-Girl delights the people with the clarity of her story. while still often a child she had sneaked out of her parents house to go to a dance, and while she was coming back through the woodsafter having danced all dark without permission, a fearful bolt rent through the sky in two and through the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that changed her into a spider (Marquez 297). When a new spectacle arrives, the woman who has been changed into a spider for dis pursueing her parents, the community shifts their attention to her. A typical carnival hoax or side portray freak (McFarland).Unlike the Angel, the people do not debate her status as a spider it is taken for granted. The story is written in third person point of view, in the eyes in Pelayo, in order to show th e isolation of the old man is feeling. As the story begins and as Pelayo finds the old man, he does not understand who or what the old man is, until he hears the old mans sailors voice. This explanation is merely arbitrary, however, because basic logic rejects the interpretation and makes Pelayos explanation merely humorous (Slomski).The story makes it difficult to understand how the old man is feeling due to the point of view it is written. If the story is switched to the point of view of the old man, it would be easier to understand the feelings and insanity the old man is being faced. They would drive him out of the bedroom with a broom and a moment later finds him in the kitchen (Marquez 298). This quote displays the alienation the old man felt through Pelayos eyes. The second interpretation is do by a neighbor woman who is thought to know everything about feel and death. The humor of her interpretation arises in the certainty with which she pronounces that theoldmanis an ang el (Slomski). Marquez use of magical realism and literary elements, in a third person point of view, proved many interpretations. Thus, the Magical Realism of Garcia Marquezs style a blurring of the division between the real and the fantastic is used to underscore the design (indeed, the seeming contradiction) that the irrational is a natural part of life (Slomski). By analyzing, the literary elements of third person/omniscient point of view, imagery and characterization are what alienate the fabulous characters.A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsAn old man with enormous wings is an interesting short story with elements of mysticism. Gabriel Jos Garca Mrque with the tool of his Magical realism unfurled the existence of reality to incorporate the myth and supernatural elements in his stories. Gabriel used this tool with great courtesy to spear into our senses our own predicaments toward the natures mystic world.This is the whole essence of An Old man with enormous wings. Here I w ill delve in this short story how with the lively characters of an old man and woman and a mystic old man with wings, Gabriel brought our real life and our connection with the nature in close proximity.The magic realism has a characteristic of deep fantasy marked with flamboyance and intermittent mystery. It goes to the credit of Gabriel that he created fantasy and the real world in proximity with each other and seems to be equal. The whole village has people full of life as if the real characters have been simmered into the words, still the aroma of mystesism can be felt when people realize the old man with wings is in possession of magical powers. It is his mysterous nature which is a center of attraction.The story starts with an old man and woman when they were collecting and throwing crabs in the sea. Pelayo suddenly came across an old angel with dilapitated wings and called his wife Elisenda. At the first invest of an angel, both were puzzled and the neighbor lady went to fu rther extent to claim that this angel must have discern to take away the child entirely as he is old, rain and thunderstorm thumped him into the ground. The old checkmate picked up an angel and put him in a chicken coop just like other chickens.The most intriguing aspect is of the story is when characters come to know that this is not a normal bird or zoology or human being, he is a human but with wings and thitherfore he is not a man. Still Doctor after examining his wings remarks why serviceman do not have these wings? Here Gabreil presented him as so natural that it seems this winged wight is normal yet incredible and we are made to believe his imaginary sense of perception.The old man with wings, a vivid character is described with the help of sensory imagination, which poises in us the clear figure of speech and makes it lively. Garca Mrquez enables us not only to visualize the old man, but also feel his mystic parts and his whistling heart.The imagery makes us understand the supernatural stereotypic elements that we hold about angels and also makes us understand that old man with wings does not possess any of the marvellous or exalted qualities but just like any other poor human being, is earthly, weak and poor. (Faulkner, 1999). Even Father Gonzaga also said that there is nothing in him that can be compared to the beautiful and dignity of angles, thus though supernatural and mystic he is.Garcia Marquez increased the anxiousness of the readers on the question of angels as real but not fictitious and is not like what we have been visualizing. This old man with wings is not anywhere near to our received angels who are powerful, beautiful and immortal, or send by God. This angel is old and decrypt, powerless, totally left at the mercy of strangers, but as mentioned in the phonograph recording he has magical qualities that rendered him a superior position. He is a bizarre mixture of holiness and the blasphemy.It appears as if he has come to make the old couples life comfortable and he did that. When he is kept in Chicken coop, slowly and slowly, son of old couple recovered, over and above Paloya and his wifes earnings too improved when they started charging the fees from the villagers who so ever came to see this strange creature. Whole village is giving his or her own interpretation regarding the originality of this angel hiding the true nature of this old man.The story moves as if it is not a fable but only a conventional idea what the people stores and hold. Until the end of the story, uncertainty remains and we are not able to know the mystery of this winged creature how it came and from where it came. This uncertainty implied not only to the winged creature but also to the life the life in which we are living now and a life where the uncertainty prevails. Through these mystic creatures, writer tries to mark that anything can happen, as this whole world is full of mysteries.The descriptions of imaginary poetry also seem s to be real, and complain of a villager of his problem of sleep because stars in the night disturbs him, also appears to be true, a simple medical problem ( Faulkner, 1999). And this impression of villagers, Garca Mrquezs created by the use of narrative voice, in the voice of a third person, and is aware of all the facts and as such readers trust him. This is also true that narrator tries to endorse upon us the idea that nothing is impossible in this world, and nature has in store numerous complex beings, which even our eyes cannot perceive.With the supernatural elements, Gabriel also used Irony as a tool to show the mirror of the other face of human beings- face, which human beings hide behind their virtuous proposition. On one hand, all villagers are showing sympathy to the junior-grade old creature but on the other hand all have their own selfish motives. Some one is coming to see the old creature to get cured and some one to make their wish fulfilled. Neighbor wanted creature to be smashed to death.Pelayo and Elisenda, who had put the tiny being in a chicken coop, used it for their own materialistic gains. The people made mockery of this winged creature as any other animal of the circus. Pelayo and Elisenda did not show any sympathy towards the poor creature. This is apparently true in this A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings that human nature is unspiritual yet boasts of spirituality.An Old Man with Enormous Wings contains a brief yet elegant presentation of human nature as thoughtless, predatory, and unspiritual humanity. Garcia Marquez by mentioning about several flaws in human nature put forward several ways in which man can turn towards divinity. The selfishness is also obvious in the story where Carnival brought a girl changed into spider, as she did not obey her parents.The cruelty lies in the humans inclination towards spicy news and furor which girl generates by not being virtuous or disobeying parents. Her story projects a true and clear meanin g of our daily life to obey your parents and not to go out dancing whole night. By the arrival of the spider girl, every ones attention is now diverted from that old angel. The story comes to an end when after so many years of captivity angel again got back his wings and flew off.Several questions remained unanswered in the story. We never come to know from where the angel came and where it has gone? The connections between what the people perceive and how they respond is left unclear. It is not clear why a neighbor woman thinks that the angel is in danger and recommends killing him, neither it is clear that how and why Pelayo and Elisendas baby got cured?Uncertainty remains through out and the people like other readers in the story just make interpretation of events but do not understand them. It is rightly said that it is a fairy bosh without any constructive explanation.