Analysis -A man with enourmous wings
...da to show her this strange thing. “He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half plucked, were forever entangled in the mud.” They both scared did not know what to do. They contacted their neighbor who was an expert in everything about life and death. She told them he was an angle and that was probably coming for their child, who was sick at the time, but the angel was so feeble that the rain must have knocked him down. By the next day everyone knew about the angel, and that he was in Pelayo’s house in a chicken coop. They thought of putting the angel in a raft with some provisions a few days after they found out that their child was not sick anymore. But they found the whole neighborhood looking at the angel and having fun with him, throwing him things. Even though they thought he was an angel, he was not treated like one. Instead he was put in a wired chicken coop, and Pelayo had the idea of charging people money to see the so-called angel. A priest came by to see the angel, and spoke to the angel in Latin, but the angle did not comprehend. The priest found him much too human. “…the back side if his wings was strewn with parasites and his main feathers had been mistreated by terrestrial winds, and nothing about him measured up to the proud dignity of angels.” Still people from all over came to see the angel, sick people came too, hoping to be cured. They place turned out as a circus, since a carnival arrived with a flying acrobat, but no one paid attention to him because his wings were not real. However, the show ended with the arrival of a woman who had been changed to a spider for disobeying her parents. They soon forgot about the angel, since the fee to see her was lower, and people were able to touch her and speak to her. Pelayo made enough money to build a mansion with balconies and Elisenda could now wear expensive clothes. The child grew and the angel was still around. Elisenda was getting fustrated in having the angel around, “…Elisenda shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels.” The angel and the child came with chicken pox at the same time, the doctor checked them both, and was surprised listening to the angel’s heart, he couldn’t understand how he can be alive, but what surprised him the most was about his wings. “they seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have them too.” It was a while later that the angel grew new strong feathers and ...