very old man with enormous wings
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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...