“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” is a story from the famous Colombian novelist Gabriel (“Gabo”) Garcia Marquez. Marquez is one of the most preeminent writers of Magical Realism, because in almost all of his stories he always tries to put that magical and mystical theme that his audience loves to read. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” is a strange story, because in the small villages of Latin America rare things happen really often, more than in any other place of the world. Some say is because of their religious views, others because of how they socialize with each other, or even because of the fact that Latin people can believe in so many things just like they could not believe in anything. The story begins in the month of March in a Latin Caribbean place with a poor family of a very low class society. Pelayo and Elisenda found an old man with wings in their courtyard. The old man became so famous that everyone thought he was an “angel.” After some time, the “angel” got his fame stolen by a woman who was turned into a spider for having disobeyed her parents. In that moment, the “angel” loses his reputation but not his essence, reason which in one day for no apparent reason the creature decides to leave the village without using any type of traditional transportation, because his enormous wings had finally grew back and he was finally able to fly again. The concept that human kind has towards the “angel” is represented as a decrepit, filthy, soaked, toothless, riddled with parasites and with very human odors. This short story is a parody as it is in a contradiction of the angel; he doesn’t get attached to anyone, his miracles are messy, he ends up sleeping in the shed all full of dirt and crawling from one side to the other, this could represent Pelayo and Elisenda’s life of economic hardship trying to survive. To achieve this, Marquez describes a courtyard littered with crabs, incessant rain, pestilence, the ashen sky and sea evoking sadness a