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Ramon Diaz de Leon “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” tells a story about a winged man who falls in a fishing town where he is kept as a circus animal. The story describes the way he is treated, misjudged and sold until he is finally strong enough to fly away from what we can call hell. The plot of the short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” revolves around the character of a winged man who has fallen to earth, but even though the story revolves around this character, the story’s true focus is not on the angel, but on the people that get involved around this man. Throughout the story, Marquez gives his opinion about human nature, and how humans are illogical . They show ignorance and cruelty in their actions towards things that are different from what they are used to. “ A very old man with enormous wings” is a criticism of the mentality of society towards the unknown. From the story we don’t know anything about the angel; we never discovered where is he coming from or what is he really doing. The only thing we know about him are his actions during the story and his physical description, and the reason for this is because nobody cares about t