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A Man or Angel
Thesis and Blueprint: In, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale For Children,” everyone that saw this old man; they all had different ways they looked at this man or angel.
Topic Sentences:
1. First, when Pelayo and Elisenda saw the old man they thought he had just been a victim of a shipwreck.
a. Point: Pelayo and Elisenda did not know what to believe they looked at this old man with wings.
i. Illustration: Pelayo and Elisenda thought the old man was a castaway from some foreign shipwreck by the storm (page 1).
l. Explanation: They did not know where this old man really had come from. b. Point: As they looked upon this old man he was dressed as a ragpicker.
i. Illustration: The old man …show more content…

Illustration: Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for who angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of spiritual conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death (page 1). l. Explanation: Pelayo not wanting to club the old man he watched over the old man and dragged him out of the mud and put him in the chicken coop. 3. Furthermore, after “Pelayo and Elisenda locked him up with the hens in the chicken coop the neighbors were looking at him and tossing him things to eat through the opening in the wire as if it weren’t a supernatural creature but a circus animal” (page 1).
a. Point: Father Gonzaga had heard about the strange news of this angel or old man. i. Illustration: Father Gonzaga had arrived and was alarmed at the strange news. By that time onlookers, less frivolous than those at dawn had already arrived and they were making all kinds of conjectures concerning the captive’s future (page 1). l. Explanation: Father Gonzaga went into the chicken coop to talk to the old man so he spoke in Latin.
b. Point: When Father Gonzaga spoke in Latin he did not understand. i. Illustration: After Father Gonzaga said good morning in Latin. The parish priest had his first suspicion of an imposter when he saw that he did not understand the language of God or know how to greet his ministers (page

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