Timing:
45 minutes
Materials:
Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature:
Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming f.
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism,.docxrandymartin91030
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism, post-modernism, and post-colonial literature, what were your favorite author and short story of the readings? Why?
For your initial post
, choose one of the readings to discuss. Please refer to the specific elements of the category that you found in the text as well as direct quotes and lines from the reading. You may choose more than one story if you like, but the minimum is to discuss at least one of the short story readings in detail.
Name the work and author
Give at least three examples from the reading
Explain how what characteristics were evident in the story that made it modernist, post-modernist, or postcolonial according to your course content lessons folder. Please note: You may include magical realism under the post-colonial category.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old t.
Department of EnglishAssessment for 200-Level Literature Courses.docxtheodorelove43763
Department of English
Assessment for 200-Level Literature Courses
ENG 230, ENG 231, ENG 235, and ENG 244
Timing: 45 minutes
Materials: Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature: Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Submit your typed writing sample via Blackboard by Wednesday (10.07.2015)
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who .
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsby Gabriel Garcia Marquezalisondakintxt
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high sea ...
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsby Gabriel Garcia Marquez.docxronak56
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high sea.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsby Gabriel Garcia Marquezdrennanmicah
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marqu.docxdaniahendric
Pelayo and Elisenda find an elderly man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. Though initially frightened, they come to see him as a familiar presence. A neighbor identifies him as an angel, but the local priest is skeptical. Word spreads and people flock to see the "angel", charging admission. Though passive, the winged man endures the crowds. Over time, his wings regrow larger feathers and he attempts flight, escaping over the sea horizon.
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ[1928–.docxdaniahendric
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on ...
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ[1928–.docxbartholomeocoombs
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on.
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism,.docxrandymartin91030
As you explored three major categories this week with modernism, post-modernism, and post-colonial literature, what were your favorite author and short story of the readings? Why?
For your initial post
, choose one of the readings to discuss. Please refer to the specific elements of the category that you found in the text as well as direct quotes and lines from the reading. You may choose more than one story if you like, but the minimum is to discuss at least one of the short story readings in detail.
Name the work and author
Give at least three examples from the reading
Explain how what characteristics were evident in the story that made it modernist, post-modernist, or postcolonial according to your course content lessons folder. Please note: You may include magical realism under the post-colonial category.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old t.
Department of EnglishAssessment for 200-Level Literature Courses.docxtheodorelove43763
Department of English
Assessment for 200-Level Literature Courses
ENG 230, ENG 231, ENG 235, and ENG 244
Timing: 45 minutes
Materials: Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
Literature: Students may use the short story for reference and citations
Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body paragraphs.
In the fifth and concluding paragraph, revisit the thesis of your essay and recapture the main points of the argument without simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
Submit your typed writing sample via Blackboard by Wednesday (10.07.2015)
Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who .
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsby Gabriel Garcia Marquezalisondakintxt
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high sea ...
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsby Gabriel Garcia Marquez.docxronak56
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high sea.
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Pelayo and Elisenda find an elderly man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. Though initially frightened, they come to see him as a familiar presence. A neighbor identifies him as an angel, but the local priest is skeptical. Word spreads and people flock to see the "angel", charging admission. Though passive, the winged man endures the crowds. Over time, his wings regrow larger feathers and he attempts flight, escaping over the sea horizon.
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
[1928–2014]
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on ...
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On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. 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, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, 1971.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and Elisenda were still killing crabs. A short time afterward the child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on.
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1. Pelayo and Elisenda find an old man with enormous wings lying in the mud in their courtyard. They call a neighbor woman who determines he is an angel.
2. Word spreads and people flock to their house to see the angel. Pelayo and Elisenda start charging admission and make a profit. The angel does not eat or interact much.
3. A traveling show featuring a woman transformed into a spider due to disobeying her parents attracts more attention than the angel. This ends the crowds coming to see the angel. Pelayo and Elisenda use the money to improve their home.
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Organization of Law Enforcement Agencies
Do you agree or disagree with the paramilitary style of organization of most law enforcement agencies? Defend your position. You must use current APA style. You must cite 1 scholarly-quality internet-based source/reference and 1 biblical source/reference to support your answer. Both sources must offer a specific connection to the discussion topic.
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Topic Parents Should have a license to have childrenaprox. 500 wo.docxVannaSchrader3
Topic: Parents Should have a license to have children
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Topic PATIENT DATA PRIVACYPerformance Improvement plan Proper an.docxVannaSchrader3
Topic: PATIENT DATA PRIVACY
Performance Improvement plan: Proper and Intense training of employees
Success of the Performance Improvement Plan
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Analyze the 4 common elements in most human disturbance according to Kelly (threat, fear, anxiety, and guilt). Compare each of these constructs with what Scripture says regarding these particular elements.
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Topic Fingerprints.Study fingerprinting in the textbook and res.docxVannaSchrader3
Topic: Fingerprints.
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Topic is Domestic Violence, Both men and women being the abus.docxVannaSchrader3
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Example: History and Sociology
Conduct a literature review: What research has been done to help answer this question?
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Hint #2: Compile an annotated bibliography as you find information as this will help you keep your sources organized and references correct.
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Topic is regional integration .First You need to find article and re.docxVannaSchrader3
Topic is regional integration .First You need to find article and resources which is related with this topic. you should write three pages about this article, resources and topic
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Topic Human Trafficking in relation to US Border and Coastal securi.docxVannaSchrader3
Topic: Human Trafficking in relation to US Border and Coastal security.
You are to prepare your paper in a word document (Times New Roman, Font 12-double space) using APA style format ("Resources" and APA info attached below). Your research paper should be
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Topic is AutonomyShort papers should use double spacing, 12-point .docxVannaSchrader3
Topic is Autonomy
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Topic Genetic connection of hypertension to cardiovascular disease .docxVannaSchrader3
Topic: Genetic connection of hypertension to cardiovascular disease in african americans?
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topic Errors (medication or patient injury)in particular stra.docxVannaSchrader3
topic: Errors (medication or patient injury)
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Topic: differences between folk guitar and classic guitar.
Minimum of 1500 words. Double-spaced. Cite ALL sources appropriately. Use MLA or APA (or any other accepted publication) for citation standards.
This is a research paper. Do not plagiarize materials. Use quotes and cite other people's work whenever it is appropriate. Do your best to be creative and original with your writing style rather than "regurgitate" information to me. You may be as creative as you like (graphics, photos, audio) as long as your paper is concise, has proper flow and informs me of something about the guitar.
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Topic Death Investigations. Review homicide investigation as de.docxVannaSchrader3
Topic: Death Investigations.
Review homicide investigation as described in the textbook and through research including
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types of wrongful deaths, the preliminary investigation, dying declaration, estimating time of death, gunshot wounds, autoerotic death investigation, and suicide investigation.
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Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Assessment and Planning in Educational technology.pptxKavitha Krishnan
In an education system, it is understood that assessment is only for the students, but on the other hand, the Assessment of teachers is also an important aspect of the education system that ensures teachers are providing high-quality instruction to students. The assessment process can be used to provide feedback and support for professional development, to inform decisions about teacher retention or promotion, or to evaluate teacher effectiveness for accountability purposes.
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
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Assessment instructions and Reading Sample
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Assesment Instructions
Gabriel García Márquez presents two vivid portrayals of a
Spider-Girl and an Angel in his short story entitled “A Very Old
Man with Enormous Wings.”
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the different
portrayals and how the author uses them to explore dualities in
human life.
Create a five paragraph essay.
Underline your thesis statement, which (for the purposes of this
assessment) should occur in the first paragraph.
Underline the topic sentences in each of the three body
paragraphs.
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essay and recapture the main points of the argument without
simply restating the thesis and the topic sentences.
2. Reading Sample
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the
house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw
them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature
all night and they thought it was due to the stench. The world
had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray
thing and the sands on the beach, which on March nights
glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and
rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when
Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the
crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving
and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very
close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face
down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts,
couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings.
Frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his
wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child, and he took
her to the rear of the courtyard. They both looked at the fallen
body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker.
3. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and
very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a
drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he
might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-
plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at
him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon
overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar.
Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an
incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was
how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite
intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some
foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a
neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to
see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their
mistake.
“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for
the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him
down.”
On the following day everyone knew that a flesh-and-blood
angel was held captive in Pelayo’s house. Against the judgment
of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times
were the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy, they did
not have the heart to club him to death. Pelayo watched over
him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s
club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud
and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop. In
the middle of the night, when the rain stopped, Pelayo and
Elisenda were still killing the crabs. A short time afterward the
child woke up without a fever and with a desire to eat. Then
they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft
with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to
his fate on the high seas. But when they went out into the
courtyard with the first light of dawn, they found the whole
neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the
4. angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat
through the openings in the wire as if he weren’t a supernatural
creature but a circus animal.
Father Gonzaga arrived before seven o’clock, alarmed at the
strange news. By that time onlookers less frivolous than those
at dawn had already arrived and they were making all kinds of
conjectures concerning the captive’s future. The simplest
among them thought that he should be named mayor of the
world. Others of sterner mind felt that he should be prompted
to the rank of five-star general in order to win all wars. Some
visionaries hoped that he could be put to stud in order to
implant the earth a race of winged wise men who could take
charge of the universe. But Father Gonzaga, before becoming a
priest, had been a robust woodcutter. Standing by the wire, he
reviewed his catechism in an instant and asked them to open the
door so that he could take a close look at that pitiful man who
looked more like a huge decrepit hen among the fascinated
chickens. He was lying in the corner drying his open wings in
the sunlight among the fruit peels and breakfast leftovers that
the early risers had thrown him. Alien to the impertinences of
the world, he only lifted his antiquarian eyes and murmured
something in his dialect when Father Gonzaga went into the
chicken coop and said good morning to him in Latin. The
parish priest had his first suspicion of an imposter when he saw
that he did not understand the language of God or know how to
greet His ministers. Then he noticed that seen close up he was
much too human: he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors,
the back side of 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.
Then he came out of the chicken coop and in a brief sermon
warned the curious against the risks of being ingenuous. He
reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of
carnival tricks in order to confuse the unwary. He argued that if
wings were not the essential element in determining the
5. different between a hawk and an airplane, they wre even less so
in the recognition of angels. Nevertheless, he promised to write
a letter to his bishop so that the latter would write to the
Supreme Pontiff in order to get the final verdict from the
highest courts.
His prudence fell on sterile hearts. The news of the captive
angel spread with such rapidity that after a few hours the
courtyard had the bustle of a marketplace and they had to call in
troops with fixed bayonets to disperse the mob that was about to
knock the house down. Elisenda, her spine all twisted from
sweeping up so much marketplace trash, then got the idea of
fencing in the yard and charging five cents admission to see the
angel.
The curious came from far away. A traveling carnival arrived
with a flying acrobat who buzzed over the crowd several times,
but no one paid any attention to him because his wings were not
those of an angel but, rather, those of a sidereal bat. The most
unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health: a poor
woman who since childhood has been counting her heartbeats
and had run out of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn’t
sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker
who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake;
and many others with less serious ailments. In the midst of that
shipwreck disorder that made the earth tremble, Pelayo and
Elisenda were happy with fatigue, for in less than a week they
had crammed their rooms with money and the line of pilgrims
waiting their turn to enter still reached beyond the horizon.
The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act. He
spent his time trying to get comfortable in his borrowed nest,
befuddled by the hellish heat of the oil lamps and sacramental
candles that had been placed along the wire. At first they tried
to make him eat some mothballs, which, according to the
6. wisdom of the wise neighbor woman, were the food prescribed
for angels. But he turned them down, just as he turned down
the papal lunches that the penitents brought him, and they never
found out whether it was because he was an angel or because he
was an old man that in the end ate nothing but eggplant mush.
His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience. Especially
during the first days, when the hens pecked at him, searching
for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the
cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with,
and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get
him to rise so they could see him standing. The only time they
succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with
an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so
many hours that they thought he was dead. He awoke with a
start, ranting in his hermetic language and with tears in his
eyes, and he flapped his wings a couple of times, which brought
on a whirlwind of chicken dung and lunar dust and a gale of
panic that did not seem to be of this world. Although many
thought that his reaction had not been one of rage but of pain,
from then on they were careful not to annoy him, because they
majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero
taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.
Father Gonzaga held back the crowd’s frivolity with formulas of
maidservant inspiration while awaiting the arrival of a final
judgment on the nature of the captive. But the mail from Rome
showed no sense of urgency. They spent their time finding out
if the prisoner had a navel, if his dialect had any connection
with Aramaic, how many times he could fit on the head of a pin,
or whether he wasn’t just a Norwegian with wings. Those
meager letters might have come and gone until the end of time
if a providential event had not put an end to the priest’s
tribulations.
It so happened that during those days, among so many other
carnival attractions, there arrived in the town the traveling show
7. of the woman who had been changed into a spider for having
disobeyed her parents. The admission to see her was not only
less than the admission to see the angel, but people were
permitted to ask her all manner of questions about her absurd
state and to examine her up and down so that no one would ever
doubt the truth of her horror. She was a frighful tarantula the
size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden. What was
most heartrending, however, was not her outlandish shape but
the sincere affliction with which she recounted the details of her
misfortune. While still practically a child she had sneaked out
of her parents’ house to go to a dance, and while she was
coming back through the woods after having danced all night
without permission, a fearful thunderclap rent the sky in two
and through the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that
changed her into a spider. Her only nourishment came from the
meatballs that charitable souls chose to toss into her mouth. A
spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a
fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a
haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals.
Besides, the few miracles attributed to the angel showed a
certain mental disorder, like the blind man who didn’t recover
his sight but grew three new teeth, or they paralytic who didn’t
get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose
sores sprouted sunflowers. Those consolation miracles, which
were more like mocking fun, had already ruined the angel’s
reputation when the woman who had been changed into a spider
finally crushed him completely. That was how Father Gonzaga
was cured forever of his insomnia and Pelayo’s courtyard went
back to being as empty as during the time it had rained for three
days and crabs walked through the bedrooms.
The owners of the house had no reason to lament. With the
money they saved they built a two-story mansion with balconies
and gardens and high netting so that crabs wouldn’t get in
during the winter, and with iron bars on the windows so that
angels wouldn’t get in. Pelayo also set up a rabbit warren close
8. to town and gave up his job as a bailiff for good, and Elisenda
bought some satin pumps with high heels and many dresses of
iridescent silk, the kind worn on Sunday by the most desirable
women in those times. The chicken coop was the only thing
that didn’t receive any attention. If they washed it down with
creolin and burned tears of myrrh inside it every so often, it
was not in homage to the angel but to drive away the dungheap
stench that still hung everywhere like a ghost and was turning
the new house into an old one. At first, when the child learned
to walk, they were careful that he not get too close to the
chicken coop. But then they began to lose their fears and got
used to the smell, and before the child got his second teeth he’d
gone inside the chicken coop to play, where the wires were
falling apart. The angel was no less standoffish with him than
with the other mortals, but he tolerated the most ingenious
infamies with the patience of a dog who had no illusions. They
both came down with the chicken pox at the same time. The
doctor who took care of the child couldn’t resist the temptation
to listen to the angel’s heart, and he found so much whistling in
the heart and so many sounds in his kidneys that it seemed
impossible for him to be alive. What surprised him most,
however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on
that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand
why other men didn’t have them too.
When the child began school it had been some time since the
sun and rain had caused the collapse of the chicken coop. The
angel went dragging himself about here and there like a stray
dying man. They would drive him out of the bedroom with a
broom and a moment later find him in the kitchen. He seemed
to be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think
that he’d been duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all
through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda
shouted that it was awful living in that hell full angels. He
could scarcely eat and his antiquarian eyes had also become so
foggy that he went about bumping into posts. All he had left
9. were the bare cannulae of his last feathers. Pelay threw a
blanket over him and extended him the charity of letting him
sleep in the shed, and then only did they notice that he had a
temperature at night, and was deliriious with the tongue twisters
of an old Norwegian. That was one of the few times they
became alarmed, for they thought he was going to die and not
even the wise neighbor woman had been able to tell them what
to do with dead angels.
And yet he not only survived his worst winter, but seemed
improved with the first sunny days.
He remained motionless for several days in the farthest corner
of the courtyard, where no one would see him, and at the
beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow
on his wings, the feathers of a scarecrow, which looked more
like another misfortune of decrepitude.
But he must have known the reason for those changes, for he
was quite careful that no one should notice them, that no one
should hear the sea chanteys that he sometimes sang under the
stars. One morning Elisenda was cutting some bunches of
onions for lunch when a wind that seemed to come from the
high seas blew into the kitchen.
Then she went to the window and caught the angel in his first
attempts at flight.
They were so clumsy that his fingernails opened a furrow in the
vegetable patch and he was on the point of knocking the shed
down with the ungainly flapping that slipped on the light and
couldn’t get a grip on the air.
But he did manage to gain altitude.
Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when
10. she watched him pass over the last houses, holding himself up
in some way with the risky flapping of a senile vulture.
She kept watching over him even when she was through cutting
the onions and she kept on watching until it was no longer
possible for her to see him, because then he was no longer an
annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the
sea.