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In reference to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

 

An angel, fallen from above, lies hopeless in a cold, wet chicken coop.

With this thought, a picture begins projecting in my mind.

 

Rain is pouring down, crushing his once white wings.

It was as if the rain refused to let him fly. His feathers sagged with a sense of defeat.

The angels body had sunk into the soft earth, creating a snarled and crooked "mud angel".

A variety of feathers were strewn about the ground of the coop like paper confetti.

But this image I had of the fallen angel was not a joyous one.

Instead it was very somber, and suggested a dark curiosity to the unknown.

 

In the story "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," I feel the reader is given a chance at creating their own magic using Marquez's writing and its imagery.

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