A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

This story is a fiction about a man who had wings. The only man that I could think of with wings is a immortal being. That tells me right away that this man is a fiction character.
The rain, crabs, and the sea, all help with the setting of an angel out in the courtyard. I can see a connection here with the bible. I believe that this man was a fallen angel, maybe even a satanic being!

The description of the angel is terrible. His clothes were rags. He was muddy, teethless, a few hairs on his head, and looked pitiful. The author used vivid images of the role or characterization this angel would play.

In the passage, "he must have been coming for the child," gives me mention of the birth of christ.
Lucifer was the fallen angel who seek to kill the newborn child , Jesus.

A very old man with enormous wings is a piece of literary called "magic realism," drawing on stories and legends , as well as techniques of modernist writing. Garcia Marquez creates a fictional lanscape that challenges traditional thought and focus the reader's attention on making sense of the world.

The story truly kept my interest. To keep an angel in your home, and finally put him out in the chicken coop, that sounds like what one would do with a household pet. When the neighborhood found out about this angel they came over to feed and look on this angel in the coop. I can see how this story became a children's story. It is because this is what fascinates children, finding something different and special, for everyone to look at!

Garcia plays good characterization for Father Gonzaga. When Father Gonzaga takes one look at him, he sees him as a imposter of the angelic world. Angels are not dirty. This angel did not know the language of God or know how to greet his ministers. The angel smells like outdoors, bugs were on his feathers. Again, these kinds of things are important to children, wouldn't you say? The minister really thought that the angel was a trick of the devil.

Now, in the story the family thinks of a way to make money by showing off this angel.
People from all around came to see this angel, and this family acquired a lot of money.
The angel was treated poorly by the people that came to see him and by the chickens in the coop that were pecking for the bugs on him. To my mind that is how children do when they have a locked pet to show off.

This angel was treated like an animal. He was branded with an iron, the way that we do livestock in production. The angel became passive, and the people would therefore not annoy him any longer. This is also a picture of human life. As a christian sometimes people can treat you in a way that you can become passive toward them. I now see the picture of Christ!

I admire the author for being able to write fiction mixed with real life and also appeal to children in the writing. Children in the United States are not taught at an early age about the raw facts of life. They grow up for a long time thinking that everything is so good. The fact of the matter is that there is a real devil, who is evil, and they have to watch out for him!