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Angel In the story A Very Old Man With Enormous move by GabrielGarcia Marquez a man named Pelayo is taking crabs to throw into the seawhen returning he finds a man with wings. He then runs to tell his married woman of thisand in turn they both tell their neighbor who knew everything about life anddeath(Marquez 84). It was not until the neighbor came that the thought ofthis man being an holy person was still introduced into the story. The thought thatthis thing was an angel is inconclusive since the only evidence given for thisconclusion is that it had wings. The fact of whether or not this creature is anangel is never genuinely stated in the story. From what I gathered from the text Iam not sure myself. The part that makes this so hard to believe that this isan angel is that it has no real reason to be there. The only information addedin to the story that comes even close to being a viable reason for this to bean angel is that the child of Pelayo is sick and so they think that h e is thereto take the child from them. When the three had come to the conclusion thathe was an angel of death their first-class honours degree reaction was to kill the man. This can bethought of as societys usual impulse of automatically wanting to destroy thestrange or unfamiliar instead of trying to learn from it. Luckily for the man,Pelayo can not bring himself to kill him, this inability to kill the man leads meto believe that Pelayo is the representation of kindliness and compassion inthis story. This compassi...