A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Sometimes it takes a different perspective for someone to see the reality of how things are handled, and Marquez's insights into the way "Mainstream Religion" has dragged God and Christianity through the mud to the point of non-recognition. This is illustrated by Pelayo and Elisenda's not even seeing the wings in the beginning. My end goal here is to bring out this wonderful story's points and compare them to mainstream religion's fallacies.The description of the weather when the Angel is found very vividly paints a picture of the mood in Pelayo's house that day. "The world had been sad since Tuesday." Is the text, while Elisenda had been nursing a sick child that they feared might die. The sea and sky had come together in a foreboding leaden gray that squeezed all hope from anyone subjected to it. The sea itself, seen as a life giving, sustenance providing entity, has risen up to threaten a helpless child to Elisenda. The crabs that provided food and retail value, are now a cause for the child's sickness. The neighbor woman even says the Angel must have been coming for the child. This shows how the thought processes were turning in reverse.
Marquez must have seen all of this hypocrisy in the church and used his wonderful symbolism to reveal it to the world, in such a way as not to offend others but hopefully open their eyes. Mainstream preachers sometimes do the same things to people. (Dan 10:10-13 NKJV)How many of these battles must the Angel have been involved with throughout the ages? How much this world's pain can an Angel possibly carry, before it collapses to the ground, in disheveled weariness? The text even states "His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. If this were true we would never have to do anything to earn money. Living off the hopes and dreams of people that have no other reason for life. They tried to touch, prod even hold feathers to their ailing parts in hopes they would be healed. When the context is added to the content, a whole different picture can emerge. After ham's son was cursed to be a slave to Shem and Japheth's families, Shem had a son named Cush, which means black. " What a beautiful image of the Divine overburdened with earthly matters. : good measure is used, it is one times what you give. A church can undergo the same growth, and maturity as the Angel symbolizes if it is willing to follow the same steps. Jesus showed this to be an antiquated idea when he healed the man that had been sick for 38 years. Yet the very word sodomy comes from the literal translation of the story. Then do the work, showing the love of God and not falling back into the traps that caught it up in the first place. God has promised to take care of His children and bless them when He is put first.
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