“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, demonstrate the reaction people in a community when they are faced with a situation that they do not understand. The community does not believe in anything that has to do with magic. They persuade themselves that the enormous man with wings cannot be an angel, but a chicken, a man who looked “… like a huge decrepit hen among the fascinated chickens” (Marquez 341). Marquez shows how human beings develop their understanding toward things they do not know and that something newer and interesting comes along. “A Very Old Man With

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“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, demonstrate the reaction people in a community when they are faced with a situation that they do not understand.  The community does not believe in anything that has to do with magic.  They persuade themselves that the enormous man with wings cannot be an angel, but a chicken, a man who looked “… like a huge decrepit hen among the fascinated chickens” (Marquez 341).  Marquez shows how human beings develop their understanding toward things they do not know and that something newer and interesting comes along.  “A Very Old Man With