1. Compare and contrast the common ground of the stories in Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and the Continuity of Parks.
In the story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, the reality is a child is sick. It was thought because of the rains and many crabs in the house that were killed. Also, because of the stink. It was decided to throw the crabs away. They feared this was what was making the child sick. The magical realm is the fallen angle with “his huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-lucked were forever entangle in the mud’ (Marquez 1) found by Pelayo and Elisenda. In the story, The Continuity of Parks, the reality is a man begins reading a novel and after being in contact with his manager. Cortazar writes, he “Sprawled