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

The plot of A very Old Man with large Wings is fantastic, precisely such sur materialistic approach is usual for Marques. This is a apologue of an angel, who came into this world, but mass refused to recognize him, so the disappointed angel had to leave1.Marques used a language, which appears to be rather simple he just tells a story as if he was telling it to children with simple words and without too much literary sophistication. This makes the story similar to a legend or a parable. The story develops in logical time devolve from the beginning to the end.Marques, as an author, takes a neutral position in the text, he provides an overview of that what has happened and leaves a freedom of valuation for the reader.However, a reader can hardly fail to be moved, at least because even a simply-told story is fantastic an angel comes to the world.Another aim of Marquess simple and even boring language is to underscore the indifference of most of the characters, whether it is father Gonzaga, who rejects an angel because the angel does not speak Latin, a language of roman letters Catholic Church, or Elisenda, who finds nothing better, than to sell tickets, as if seeing an angel was a show.The idea of Marques is unequivocal people be so far from God, that they be unable to recognize His messenger.Time and place of the story are unknown. It can only be suggested, that it is some Spanish-speaking country. Marques speaks of the time as in those times making a story even more similar to a legend.Such style of writing is rendered as wizardly realism, because it is divorced from reality by uncertainty of time and place and by skillful blundering of real and fantastic elements2.Marques has himself called A very Old Man with Enormous Wings a story for children. It has been indite in the period between his two landmark novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and The declivity of the Patriarch in a markedly easy manner3.Nevertheless, it includes almost all elements of magical realism, which can be found in his great books a world, which exists by itself without ties with the surrounding, fantastic creatures which enter the world, and biblical language of story-telling.Is it a story for children? In a way yes, it is a story for children or at least for those who are not yet spiritually adult. It is not Marquess fault, that most of his audience appears to be spiritual children.As any children they have to be warned about possible poor consequences of their action, and in this sense the story of Marques represents such warning. rattling nothing happens in the story, what can be called obviously evil except for one thing people in their daily routine have forgotten God.Works cited1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A rattling Old Man with Enormous Wings, at http//www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/garciamarquezoldman.html (last viewed October 16, 2007)2. Faulkner, Tom. An Overview of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Exploring short-circuit Stories. De troit Gale Research, 1998. Rpt. Gale Database Literature Resource Center, 1999. for sale at http//web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/marquezviews.htm (last viewed October 16, 2007)3. Nicholas Tornaritis. GradeSaver(tm) ClassicNotes A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, GradeSaver, LLC, 20061 For the story see Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, at http//www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/garciamarquezoldman.html (last viewed October 16, 2007)2 Faulkner, Tom. An Overview of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Exploring Short Stories. Detroit Gale Research, 1998. Rpt. Gale Database Literature Resource Center, 1999. Available at http//web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/marquezviews.htm (last viewed October 16, 2007)3 Nicholas Tornaritis. GradeSaver(tm) ClassicNotes A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, GradeSaver, LLC, 2006. P.-19