Analysis of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Introductions

In the story it is discovered that the creature does not understand the language spoken by the locals although it was suspected to be Latin, this gives a political dimension to it and as highlighted by Father Gonzales who became suspicious of the creature when he discovered that the creature did not understand the heavenly language.

The story of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is written in the literary style known as magic realism. Conjuring trick realism is where a floor contains some magical aspect to an otherwise realistic scenario. Some may say that the narration is difficult to follow due to this character of literary style being used since it is unfamiliar, but Raney makes an argument against this theory. The Department of State that when he provides his students with the designation of reading this story he quotes “García Márquez on magical realism: “There is not a unity line in all my work that does not have a ground. The problem is that Caribbean world resembles the wildest mental imagery”. With this explanation, Raney claims his students seem to understand the literary style better, after all, we all seem to follow the wild resource used in moving picture and TV. We follow TV display or movies that ask us to believe in teenage werewolves, vampires, and witches, which we have no problem doing. Trick realism itself does not seem to explain why “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” parting its readers impression unsettled and confused. According to William Falkner there are several parts of the chronicle that could leave a referee feeling unsettled. The first thing that Faulkner compass points at as unsettling is the fact that a creature with 11 senses of wing “must be either a goliath or a miracle” and yet the doctor in the chronicle writes him off as being normal, that his fender are logical even. No one question’s the human beings it’s wings or how he got to Pelayo and Elisenda’s courtyard. Faulkner res publica that the author has left it impossible to scene the old man into any preconceived mental boxwood because there is “latent hostility between the old man’s magical and human qualities”. The old man in weak, feeble, almost bald, and his feather are full-of-the-moon of parasites and yet he has these wings along with qualities that are magical and there is the fact that he has performed miracle despite them not meeting anticipation. In this village anything can happen, or so one is led to believe. For case, for disobeying your parent you could be turned into a wanderer. For much of the news report the narrative is from the omniscient point of sentiment, which agency that this teller “knows all the necessary facts, and can be trusted to present them reliably” There are time that the storyteller suddenly changes narration viewpoints and even his own personal persuasion of the event. It leaves the reviewer inquiring whether the narrator is deluded, lie to the subscriber, or if these issues take place. The narrator’s sack in writingbros.com 1 / 2 viewpoints along with the various case of imagery “serves to heighten the reader’s uncertainty”

In this context we can understand that the story is reflective of the political climate of Colombia where it is dominated by two parties, this story is attributed to the writer who is of a mixed race and descended from pirates and smugglers, he has presented himself as the winged creature and thus seemingly making a political statement.

The writer has portrayed himself as an outsider (winged man) and his two hosts as the main political parties in Colombia. One can interpret the unbearable smell as the misbehaviors committed by the outsiders i.e. the pirates and smugglers.

The story can also be placed in a religious context. Believing the language of the old man to be Latin; the people of Macombo have the feeling that the Creature might be an angel. This attracts pilgrims from all over who are expecting to receive miracles. The writer tells of the Portuguese who couldn’t sleep, of the sleepwalker, the woman who had been counting his heartbeat since childhood and many other people with different ailments.

However, no miracle happened and hence no person was healed and instead some of them got even whose. Realizing that they couldn’t be healed the pilgrims forget all about the winged man except Palayo and his wife who continue to live with the creature. The pilgrims are attracted to another spectacle of the woman who was changed to a spider.

The reader observes the magical quality of the winged man through the doctor after he and the child were caught with Chickenpox. The doctor discovers that his heart doesn’t beat normally but makes a ‘faint whistling’, he also realizes that the wings appear naturally and wonders why men cannot have them, in this the writer shows that what appears unnatural to someone can be natural to another or event to ourselves if we take a careful look at something.

On carefully reading the story one can also conclude that the winged man is an angel that came to protect the child who had just been born. This is because as soon as the child attained the school going age the angel flies away, besides that the winged man is observed playing with the child.

The child behaves with openness towards the angel in a way that is lacking in adults. Also, the coming of the old man with wings brings success to the family of the child; the writer tells us that with the money they had saved up, ‘they built a two-story mansion with balconies and gardens. Above all, the story gives a moral lesson to the target audience that it had set to reach, the writer tells us the story of the woman who was changed into a spider for disobeying her parents and thus the story remains folklore nonetheless.