This example of magical realism, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," is respectable. This story possesses all of the characteristics of magical realism, including one fantastic element while remaining grounded in reality, a deeper importance, and a lack of a strong justification for events or human behavior. (Garcia,2014). When it comes to transforming the common and routine into something incredibly unusual and otherworldly, Gabriel Garcia Marquez excels.
In the midst of a downpour, an elderly guy who just so happens to be endowed with a few enormous wings crashes into Pelayo and Elisenda's house. All of the action that takes place a short while later in the narrative is set up in this scene. Since it is a quite unlikely (alright, totally unthinkable as per every known law of science) circumstance, it additionally discloses to us that the story will have a magical-realism twisted. The one thing about this tale that emerges the most, is the utilization of tone by the author (Drescher,2013). This is the primary part of the story that bounces out at you. The use of tone and detail truly works to the tale's advantage. The first paragraph alone is loaded with depictions that truly set the tone and make you have an inclination that you are there. The paragraph makes a decent showing with regard to the setting of the tone. It gives you the inclination that you are in an old, residential area. One of those little towns where everybody knows each other and the undertakings and gossip of the school kids that travels widely in the town.
As the story progresses, the characters wonder why the angel is in their nearness. Is it accurate to say that he was amidst a flight and was compelled to arrive as a result of the climate? On the other hand, would he say that he was before their home since he was coming to help the family? They expected that his coming was to help the child. "He's an angel," she let them know. "He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down." Once everyone gets settled in the way that an angel has crash arrived in their town, they begin to ponder what they should do.
I trust that "A very old man with enormous wings" is the blessed angel, who stands for the unfamiliar and the mysterious elements in life. The angel is not only something magical, but as well it is something foreign-somebody who captivates everyone as being not quite the same as the rest of the general public.
Here, Marquez demonstrates to us the general public's interest with things that are distinctive and extraordinary. At the point when the society is confronted with the obscure, the general public shows inconsiderateness and prejudice. Generally, the people fear for what they don't understand. Sickened by the outer appearance of the angel, they demonstrated to him no empathy (Charter,2015). Rather, they group abuse and embarrass the angel along with Elisenda and Pelayo, who transform their home into the bazaar, and benefit from the angel to his detriment "With the money they saved they built a two-story mansion with balconies and gardens"(573). They abuse the old man since he doesn't meet the general population's stereotypes for how a "typical" individual ought to look and act. Since people have never observed anything like this, they consequently treat the man like he is not a person (despite the fact that he is in the human shape), but instead an animal.
After sometime of the angel being ignored by everyone, his wings heal. Later, Elisenda watches out to the kitchen window to see the angel take off (Rabassa & Bernstein,2008). He is attempting to fly in view of his sore wings, yet in the long run he vanishes in the horizon. This completes the story with the sentiment of a positive tone. Everything is by all accounts a tad bit brighter now. The angel did not only manage to recover and fly to wherever he originated from, but also now the family was very well off due to the cash got by the tourists who had come to see the fallen angel. There is no utilization in thinking about whether the angel desired a reason any longer, his nearness served to totally turn the family's way of life around. Their new house was exceptionally delightful. The mansion had balconies and gardens as well as nets where the crabs were kept. This shielded the crabs from getting into the house and making everything messy, which was specified prior in the story as the reason that the child was wiped out in any case. I figure out that Elisenda was correct when she said that the holy messenger had come to help the infant.
References
Charters, A. (2015). The story and its writer: An introduction to short fiction.
Drescher, S. (2013). Arana: An adaptation from a tale 'A very old man with enormous wings'. London: Sofia Drescher.
García, M. G. (2014). A very old man with enormous wings: And, the sea of lost time.
Rabassa, G., & Bernstein, J. S. (2008). Collected stories. London: Penguin Books.
