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The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have just finished reading a story of magical realism The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A tale for Children by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In my opinion this magical realism was very well written; even though I think more of the characters emotions could have been shared. Although Gabriel Garcia Marquez chose such a basic storyline of a new person comes to town, he was able to take it to new places. The story is also written from a third person limited point of view. In class we talked about the seven deadly sins. These are different traits that can be found in people and the characters of a story. In this story the old man has pride. The character demonstrates this on many occasions.

The old man in the story shows he has pride when he
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The old man landed in a family's backyard on a very rainy muddy day. When he is discovered, they treat him like an outsider or a newly discovered species of animal. They get him up from the ground and placed him in a chicken coop, but the man just sits in the corner and does not bother to get out. I feel that this action shows how prideful he is because he knows he is going to get out before long, and he would rather not embarrass himself. “The inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm… in front of the chicken coop ” (Marquez p1). Even if he is stronger than the other people he does not want to stoop to their level. “Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is the monster that swallows it up” (Gandhi). Just as Mahatma Gandhi says pride overcomes violence. As if being caged up wasn't bad enough once word got out that there was a man with wings a lot of

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