Prejudgment of the world
The story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is full of symbols that carry the real theme of the story. First, the appearance of the angel was old, with bad smell and parasite grown on the huge buzzard wings. The wings were dirty and half-plucked, and were forever entangled in the mud. The author made the appearance of the angel very unpleasant which makes a contradiction to our prejudice. We all think that angel should be very beautiful and clean, but this angel is just opposite of what we thought. If the old man was really an angel, this is a test to the villagers' complexity of thinking. Though the old man was an angel, the people around him did not treat him as a holy creature. They did not even treat him like a human. Pelayo put him in the chicken coop, which is not a good place to live. The neighborhood came to see the angel, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire. The people around the angel treat him so bad because they were simple-minded, which was what the author wanted to imply that the people in the world are mostly narrow-minded. We have too many thoughts and values we learnt from the past. These thoughts tell us things should be
After sometime, one day Elisenda said "it was awful living in that hell full of angels". It means she started to hate the angel. This shows that she did not think very deep. She should know that it was because of the angel, they got rich and built a house. One of the wrong thoughts of the couple is charging people admittance fee for seeing the angel. They used the holy creature to make money. This is a very common problem of the people nowadays. We always try to make money or earn benefits; we absolutely do not do something without any benefits. We never miss a chance to take advantage of anything. The couple expects the angel would help them on the things they want. They expect he would heal their child's sickness. A lot of people came to the angel and expects he would heal them. But it did not happen. The angel did not help the people what they expected to be helped. The couple tried to feed the angel with mothballs, which, according to the wisdom of the wise neighbor woman, were the food prescribed for angels. These are examples showing that most of the people in this world have narrow-minded expectation. But the reality does not have to behave like this. After
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Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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