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As a Christian an angel is represented as a supernatural being from heaven, someone close to God. Angels are often visualized as beautiful winged people. As for the wings, it represents freedom and generally white which means pure in Christian tradition. In the short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Marquez did not follow this cultural belief. The story revolves around an old sickly angel who was founded by Pelayo in the courtyard. When reading deeper into this story many questions came rushing to my mind. One important question in which I must state is “What was going through the angel mind?” I have two hypotheses; first one is that the angel felt like a captive animal for society enjoyment. Second is, he felt as though he was not giving credit for the little “magic” he had brought to Pelayo family. You will understand why I came up with these two hypotheses throughout my essay. Regarding my first hypotheses, the angel felt like a captive animal for society …show more content…

People pay to see him, to pluck his feathers, to get reliquaries. His existence is threatened by human need.” This shows the angel who could not speak so they kept him locked away and was punished for no reason. In conclusion “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reflects on human’s nature and how sometimes it could be selfish. It is a fact that man’s greatest goal is his own happiness; therefore he can sometimes be insensitive to others. The Angel couldn’t do what everyone expected him to do so he was treated unfairly but no one cared about his feelings. He was truly a blessed

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The Angelification in the Gospel of Matthew 1. Introduction In his well known The Resurrection of the Son of God, N. T. Wright, following the thesis of Oscar Cullmann, suggests that early Christians did not believe in any form of angelic afterlife. As a response to their view, this essay seeks to argue that some early Christians, especially the author of the Gospel of Matthew, probably believed in angelification in line with Late Second Temple Judaism. I will first investigate the notion of angelification in the light of Second Temple Jewish writings.

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In Cesar Vallejo’s poem, “Los Heraldos de Negros”, in English called “The Black Heralds”, themes of God, children, love, and tragic consciousness emerge. My aim here is to examine another important source of his meaning, which is how the speaker sees God’s role in his encounters with life’s struggles. In the poem, a hateful God replaces a merciful God. The nature of this hateful God poses as a savior but instead of being helpful, or being resurrected to save humankind, he poses as a false or fake entity, which confuses and frustrates the speaker. Vallejo depicts God as hateful instead of merciful, because the speaker challenges and questions God’s methods.

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The questions about angels that Billy Collins uses in his writing, is a reflection of uncertainty that he himself has on religion. This can be seen in several instances, however two that a reader often might glance over is when Billy Collins writes, “ Do they sit alone in little gardens changing colors”, and “ Do they swing like children from hinges” (3). Starting off with the first question he poses a reader might think the Billy Collins is referring to the flowers changing color in heaven. However if one takes a deeper look into the poem, we can see that he 's actually referring to the skin tone of the angels themselves. Posing numerous other questions, such as “what race are angels?”, and “what does this mean about our current representation of heaven”.

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The short story, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is titled this because it shows that the characters don’t understand or appreciate how magnificent the angel is. When Pelayo and Elisenda first meet the angel, they “skipped over the inconvenience of the wings” and automatically assume that he is a “lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm,” (1). They view him as a “very old man lying face down in the mud,” (1). They don’t consider the possibility that he is an angel until their neighbor “who knew everything about life and death,” (1) tells them that he is one. Their newborn child is ill with “a temperature all night,” (1).

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Marquez creates confusion over the identity of the old man in order to present the human nature to react to differences to the reader. The village people are determined to ostracize the man as they “dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop” (Marquez #). Many theories of his identity are discussed throughout the citizens creating a confusing atmosphere. Eventually, “No one paid any attention to him because his wings were not hose of an angel but, rather, those of a sidereal bat” (Marquez #). Once the old man is no longer an object of obsession, he becomes a part of the past.

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In the story “Night Women,” the mother claims that, “the night is the time I dread most in my life. Yet if I am to live, I must depend upon it.” She is a prostitute who must provide for her young child who is completely unaware of the work that his mother is involved in. The narrator tells her son a story about an angel coming to rescue him, bringing back his father. This sense of hope is what keeps the mother sane, and also provides the son something to believe in.

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