A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Essay

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a story that not only brings imaginary characters into play nevertheless also it combines imagination with events that we live everyday. For me, the background of the story is not unfamiliar at all, since the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born and raised in Colombia and I found well-nigh of the details of the story related to me when I used to live in South America. The magic realism used in this story illustrates many aspects of our social club today. The reaction of the people in the town towards the appearance of an unknown creature with a bald skull, just a few teeth in his embouchure and enormous and dirty wings resembling a rare angel, makes me think about how people are very intolerant to differences of other individuals. I concluded this when I read the part ...