"Its a bird!" Its a plane!"Oh.... It's just an angel. Most religious people these days the meaning of accidentally finding or even catching a glimpse of an angel stretched across their courtyard is a sign of a miracle to come. As if that they finally believed in God or a more higher powerful beings than themselves. However, that's not the case when Elisenda and Pelayo found their own miracle on their front step in ''A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings'' written by Gabriel G. Marquez.'' But due to the old man's bizarre accent, they jumped to the conclusion that he was just a ''lonely castaway'' that was washed ashore, and completely missed the fact that he has a ginormous wings. They were more surprised at his raggedy appearance than the fact that he resembled to an angel despite of his old age. This represents how people can easily become close minded to magical possibilities and prevented them from seeing a world from an uncommon perspective than just simply ''seeing.''
Instead of putting the poor, old man to a more appropriate and comfortable place to stay, the couple had the nerve to leave him inside their filthy chicken coop just because he looked liked he belong there due to his dirty presence.What if the old, winged man was young and beautiful, would the couple have treated him any differently?
Would they have provided him a more suitable environment? Furthermore, the other villagers also depicted the couple's behavior by throwing foods at him and basically treated him as a ''circus animal'' than a human. Fortunately, the winged man did not complain nor curse his unfortunate situation nor his ''host family.'' Instead he simply ignored the ogling villagers than lashed his anger in return. And as if he had been through the same treatments from others based on his appearance. The villagers reactions to a more different creatures like the old, winged man, and the spider woman represents how society can be very cruel towards others because of their differences, and how they immediately forgets that they came from the same, old roots as well. Overall, we should look beyond of what we actually see and create a more diverse understanding of others, and ourselves. We should also be open minded to countless possibilities of events and experiences that we might encounter when we meet our own ''miracle'' in life.
