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Gabriel García MárquezA Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
If the lesson of the spider woman’s story is to not lie or misbehave, what might be the lesson or moral of the old man’s story? How does the author communicate this lesson?
Rewrite the story, replacing the realistic elements with more fantastic ones, until the story is only magical. How does it compare to other fantasy stories you have read? What does this say about the power of magical realism?
Both the old neighbor woman and Father Gonzaga present themselves as “experts” on the matter of the angel. Compare their depiction and behavior. What gives them this authority? How is it upheld?
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