Old Man With Enormous Wings

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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” reflects how humanity deals and treats with something unknown. The story was published with the subtitle “A Tale For Children” which shows that it was directed and aimed towards young audiences, and it shows, from the over simplistic title to the short and sweet story with simplistic characters. It feels mostly like a folk story with a moral lesson to be learned. But during the time I read this, I felt that there was a double meaning to the story, and that the childish setting is just a mirage to hide the true lessons and morals that the author attempts to portray. What I believe that the author tries to portray is that humans treat the unknown with fear, yet curiosity, that is why you see how some villagers such as the neighbor woman want to kill the Old Man, while other villagers want to poke the man with a stick. Humans interact differently with the unknown, thus in the story you start noticing the clash of perspectives regarding the Old Man with wings. While Pelayo and his wife Elisenda are convinced that the old man is an angel, others such as the local priest, Father Gonganze and the neighbor woman do not seem to think so. Eventually word spreads of the so called fallen Angel, and humans are intrigued and driven …show more content…

The narrator sometimes gets inside of the thoughts on particular characters but it does not spend too much time, instead it focuses more on the physical actions of the humans. It describes how the old man is treated towards everyone, he is treated by some like an attraction and something to be feared. The old man kept being an attraction and being poked with sticks until the very end, when a spider lady grabbed the attention of the humans by being new and more unknown than the old man, demonstrating how humans are driven to the unknown due to their

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