Seeing World Another Perspective. Half A Day Essay

¶ … Seeing World Another Perspective." "Half a Day" Naguib Mahfouz "Big Black Good Man" Richard Wright "A Very Old Man Enormous Wings" Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Particularities have always served as a tool for discrimination, given that the contemporary society has grown accustomed to treat people on account of their background and depending on the way that they look. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1955 short story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" puts across an episode in the life of a Hispanic community that has come to express its discriminatory and exploitative nature consequent to encountering a distressed creature. The Native American saying "Never criticize another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins" partly explains Garcia Marquez's account. Fueled by folklore and as a result of seeing the opportunity to make easy money, the Pelayo and Elisenda do not hesitate to...

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Thus, considering that Pelayo, Elisenda, and everyone in the village believed that it would have been impossible for an actual angel to have the same characteristics as the old man standing before them, they resort to treating him poorly and even to exploiting him by asking an entrance fee to the people interested in seeing him. Judging from the overall state of affairs involving the human community that has come across the old man with enormous wings, it is only safe to conclude that they were virtually indifferent to his health condition or to his background.
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1. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. (1955). "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings."


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