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gabriel.docxChoose a short story and analyze three literary elements using the primary source (the text), and two secondary sources.
Choose a story to analyze:
· Gabriel Garcia Marquez – “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
· Symbolism, imagery, allegory, theme
GUIDELINES:
· MLA Standard Paper Format
· NO YOU, YOUR, I, ME
· Minimum 5 paragraphs (700 words) and MUST use 5 quotes
· In addition to the short story, you must use 2 outside sources
· Works Cited Page – ABC Order, Hanging Indent
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
This story, written by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, tells the story of a man who appears in a poor village and is considered an angel, because of its big wings. The news of the arrival of this "angel” It quickly expands among neighbors, and judgments do not take long to appear. By the way, this angel was the opposite of an angel. He was old, bald, toothless, and his wings were all destroyed and without feathers. This story contains many elements of symbolism, imagery, allegory, and theme.
While the inhabitants of the town consider him a real angel, the parish priest is skeptical: Father Gonzaga, who, seeing the appearance of the angel, seriously doubts whether to believe or not. “Alien to the impertinences of the world, he only lifted his antiquarian eyes and murmured something in his dialect when Father Gonzaga went into the chicken coop and said good morning to him in Latin. The parish priest had his first suspicion of an impostor when he saw that he did not understand the language of God or know how to greet his ministers(Shampoo’s)."
García Márquez plays off of this cultural symbolism because, ironically, the wings of the “angel” in the story convey only a sense of age and disease. The way the family and the society treated him, made it seem like he was an animal rather than a miracle.
