`A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings` and `Gimpel`

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Analysis of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ' and Gimpel the Fool

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ' and in Isaac Bashevis Singer 's Gimpel the Fool ' it is shown how the two main protagonists of the story significantly alter the lives of the people and the environment around them . However , their endings state otherwise and leaves vague clues as to how readers may perceive them . On the other hand , the reactions of the other

characters to the protagonists respective behaviors speak volumes about human nature

In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ' the central character , who is the old man with large wings , was initially greeted with both fear and awe , particularly by Pelayo and Elisenda , who saw him first . They both looked at the falled body with mute stupor (Marquez 705 . Their neighbor woman and a few other spectators also described him as an angel who had supernatural powers . Others , however , mocked and made fun of him as he was inside his makeshift home in the chicken coop .tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren 't a supernatural creature but a circus (Marquez 705 ) These reactions basically prove that it is human nature to fear , revere , or ridicule something one does not understand

On the other hand , in Gimpel the Fool ' the protagonist , Gimpel , was mainly portrayed as a highly gullible...