Lessons Learned from a Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story written by Gabriel Garcia Márquez in 1955. Magical realism plays an important part in this story is the use of the fantasy of an old portrait as an angel who came to create miracles for a family along with many other believers. Some will believe it, others will simply chase away this so-called "angel" in a painful and heartbreaking way. I liked this story very much. I was able to get very interested. Marquez debuts with "The Third Day of Rain". That line there is magical because angels come from God, and on the third day the son of God rose from the tomb. It was the third day that Pelayo met this very old man who seemed to be an angel. It was terrible how Pelayo had thrown that angel into the chicken pen. Only after Pelayo and his wife Elisenda were blessed that their child was no longer sick did he realize that he had wronged this angel. Pelayo released the angel so that he could leave as he pleased. The strange thing was that the angel was there in the light of dawn, right where they had placed him when they first discovered him. At this point, I think this is truly a spiritual story. People just have to magically realize what is happening. I see a magical element in this angel. In our daily lives, we see angels as beautiful, clean, and miraculous in certain ways. This angel was infested with parasites, his wings were very dirty and the miracles performed were strange. The purpose was to interest people like me in seeing the angel from two different points of view. The way people treated this angel was terrible. They threw things at him and treated him like… middle of paper… as if he had come to create miracles in a family along with many other believers. This story definitely taught me to never lie to my parents again. I certainly would never want to be turned into a spider. I thought lessons needed to be learned. From my perspective, I thought this story could also be about the death and resurrection of Christ. I recommend, if someone who appears to be an angel comes knocking on the door, not to throw him among the chickens. Works Cited Faris, Wendy B. "Magical Realism: Post-Expressionism. "Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community." Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham; NC: Duke UP, 1995: 163-190. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.” The Norton Introduction to Literature, Ed Jerome Beaty, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 487-492.