A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Essay

Magical realism is when a realistic and naturalistic story are combined with elements of fantasy. The story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about a man who comes upon a family by chance and changes their lives for the better. The two major supernatural occurrences in the story are the old man with wings and the girl who has been turned into a spider. The people in the story treat the old man as a freak of nature, not supernatural. The old man appears to be nothing more than a weak human with wings. The Spider-Girl is a clear contrast with the Old Man. The old man is difficult and impossible understand, the Spider-Girl’s story is concrete and doesn’t leave much up for imagination. She disobeyed her parents as so was

“The Rememberer” tells the story of a woman whose significant other begins change from a man into different creatures. Throughout the story Annie thinks on the last days Ben was human. Ben was an intelligent man, one of the reasons Annie fell in love with him as they would sit together and be sad and think. She felt there was too much thinking and not enough heart in their relationship and wants to let go. The next morning Annie discovers that Ben has transformed into an ape. Annie takes the time to care for ape Ben because she is a nice person. Annie returns from work one day and discovers that he has again shifted, now into a salamander in the baking pan. Annie can’t handle it anymore and decides to let Ben go. She releases Ben the salamander into the ocean, hoping that one day Ben will come back, as the man she loved. The theme of this short story is letting go. The main character wants to stop thinking and let everything go so bad that it transformed into creatures so that she could actually let him go. Though the scenario is supernatural, it is placed in a realistic setting that seems to be real life. The characters have an ordinary relationship, ordinary jobs, and an ordinary