thINK #2

 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.