How Could
They?
Can it be? In the story, “A Very Old
Man with Enormous Wings” By Gabriel Garcia Marquez there is a very different
entrance of the main character. This main character, the angel, is mistreated.
This is until they find a use for him. If this was an angel is this really how
you would treat it?
If you haven’t read the story you
may ask how an angel could be mistreated. Well, this angel first off was put on
a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days. This sounds bad right?
It gets even worse. The only reason it was for three days was because these
people decided they could make money off the angel. This may sound so cruel,
but guess what? Believe it or not there are situations like this all around
you.
I
can relate to this. I can because my parents got divorced. Okay well you’re
probably thinking so what that’s an everyday thing sadly for average American
families. Well, my dad left my mom oversea, and my mother had been a homemaker
for 13 years. We were like the angel. My father was like Pelayo and Elisenda.
He got his own business, and was living “the good life”. We were just left
behind and in bad condition. Well, to get to the point he now regrets it, and
we are back on track in life with my stepdad and new family.
The
story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and my life story are alike because
in both endings where there is a desire to push away, there is a desire to
help. Both stories show that in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Elisenda
lets the angel go with no regrets it seems like. Then, in my life story my dad
regrets what he did, and is trying to help my family because he has compassion
for us in the end.
