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Humorous Wings By Gabriel Marquez

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Gabriel Marquez uses intricate details and repulsive descriptions such as “the backside of his wings was strewn with parasites” (536) to engage an initial emotional response of disgust from the audience. The selfishness of the characters and the mistreatment of the angel helps the readers move towards Marquez’s ideal that the illusion of church and religion are useless and frail in the reality of life. The first depiction of the angelic being “his pitiful condition of a great-grandfather” (535), immediately dismantles any grandeur surrounding the holy creature. Other presentments of the ethereal being “patience of a dog” (537), and “buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked” (536), give the reader the presumption that this creature is less than
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