Marquez

In the short stories, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World;” Marquez does a fantastic job of making people use their imagination.   He gives us a plot full of odd things that are taking place and the reactions of people in the text are having to these situations.  He makes the reader step out of our comfort zone of reality and for us to visualize things from a fantasy world.  He questions the limits of human faith and shows that we are blinded to true miracles because we are set in our beliefs that keep our imagination limited. 

I did not like when people were throwing stones at the angel just because he was different from them.  It was also irritating that the “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.”  These people were oblivious that an angel can exist that does not know the language of God and that their ideals of what an angel should be were blocking the path of their imaginations.  These stories both reminded me of being a child and constantly living in a make believe world because the norms society has set for us had not yet effected my mind.  Miracles happened everyday when my thoughts weren’t confined to reality.  The imagination is a wonderful asset to our lives but it gets put on the back burner because it is not seen rational for people to let their thoughts roam freely.