Not An Angel Are You Sure? Story and Imagery, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children, Gabriel Garcia Marquez If a person has wings and can perform miracles of any kind that makes them an angel right? Well how about if he is really, really old, decrepit, and ‘dressed like a rag picker’ (Marquez 1). Well in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children you get just that. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a well written story that draws in it’s readers through an outstanding plot, masterful use of imagery, and creative characters. The story takes place in a small, Spanish, coastal town. A place where ‘ sea and sky were a single ash-grey thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of …show more content…
Which can be noted in how ‘on the following day everyone knew’ about the angel being imprisoned in the chicken coop. The story also spans over a matter of years, this is never really said only implied by how the newborn in the beginning is in the end going to school which means he should be around six years old. The plot of the story starts with Pelayo and Elisenda, parents of a sick newborn finding an old man with huge wings outside their house. After putting him in the chicken coop they go to their neighbor for advice ‘”He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”’(Marquez 3) She then advises them to kill the old man so that their child would get better. However they decide to wait and as it seemed that the baby was getting better they ‘[decide] to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high seas’(Marquez 4). The next morning they