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A 3 page paper which examines how the angel is compared by the townsfolk to a circus animal, a carnival acrobat, and a sideshow freak (a woman who had been changed into a spider), the significance of these three incidents to the story, and how they help readers to make sense of the old man with enormous wings and the residents’ response to his presence in their community. No additional sources are used.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGmanwings.rtf
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escapes human comprehension and defies scientific logic, people struggle to explain the unexplained. There is a certain security found in knowledge, because what remains unknown represents fear and uncertainty.
That is exactly what the townspeople attempt to do in Gabriel Garcia Marquezs childrens short story, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings." After surviving a devastating flood,
Pelayo, his wife Elisenda, and newborn son, survive to find on their property turned marshland "a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his
tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez). Because it was inconceivable to the couple this could be an angel in human form, they decided it
must be "a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm" (Marquez). Because they were incapable of understanding what this man was or what he represented and
were afraid for their own safety, Pelayo and Elisenda felt compelled to keep the old man in captivity. News always travels fast in a small town, and soon, the local
residents were coming around to sneak a peak at this living angel. As is any anomaly, this curiosity attracted considerable attention, and possibly to establish a comfort level with
something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area attractions. First, when the crowd began to gather outside of Pelayos chicken coop (where the old man
was being held), they compared what they were seeing to those caged circus animals that always commanded their attention as well as their money, not unlike Pelayo and Elisenda who
were charging an admission price of five cents a person. If the old man was not some type of supernatural creature, then he naturally had to be some oversized
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