“His style permits the reader to visualize every single detail of his stories.” Sergio Velez, in his Imagery Analysis, gives this opinion while talking about Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his use of imagery . He explains how Marquez gives so much detail in his story so that the readers can see the characters and setting like he wants them to be seen. All the details needed for the reader to have a perfect description of the setting and the character are given by the author. In “A Very Old Man WIth Enormous Wings” Marquez uses imagery to help the reader better understand what’s going on throughout his story.
Imagery is something every reader benefits from. Every story you read,you always come up with some sort of picture in your head. You use the details, descriptions, characteristics, etc. provided to visualize what what is being read. He
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Yet when the doctor examines the old man, what most impresses him is the logic of his wings, which seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have them too. Logic and science insist that such a creature must be supernatural, but Garcia Marquez presents him as entirely natural…” When the doctor examines the old man, it’s clear to him that he is definitely not just human. The way that the wings look so natural on his body even makes the doctor question why other men don’t have them. (Magic Realism… 2)
The way Marquez describes this makes the reader almost comfortable with this old man. He makes this old man with wings, a supposed “angel”, seem normal. Gabriel Marquez does this, showing how the characters react and feel about the “angel” to get the reader to feel the same. Once he gives the reader enough descriptions about the old man and about the characters’ reactions, to the point where he is sure they’ve all accepted the idea of this man, he brings in the spider