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The book I have recently read was A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Childre. Written by Gabriel Garcia Marques with the main characters of Pelayo. Elisenda, and the angel. When Pelayo was coming back from throwing the crabs in the sea, he heard a groaning coming from the courtyard, when he had moved closer to the noise he came across a man lying face down in the mud surrounded by what looked like wings! When he called out to his wife, Elisenda who was tending their sick child, came to see she could have not believe her eyes, so she called the town's priest to take a look. In the chicken coop many of the town's people gathered around to see the mythical creature. Many had false accusations but a eldery women who knew everything from life to deaty came and said " he's an angel, he must have been coming for the child". …show more content…

More and more town's people came to Pelayo's house and Pelayo and Elisenda decided to charge a fee to see the creature. When the news of the angel became old news, Elisend and Pelayo began expanding their land with all the riches, leaving the angel in the chicken coop. When the young boy began to have a desire to eat and a reduced fever, Pelayo wanted the boy to stay far away from the chicken coop. When the child began school , the angel would go out into the sunlight and regain strength. One day when Elisenda was cutting onions in the kitchen she could see the angel attempting to fly, when in the sky Elisenda watched him go until he was an imaginary dot on the horizon. In this paper I am going to anaylze the use of Marquez's Magical Realism and the theme of this

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