Gabriel Garcia Marquezs A Very Old Man With Enormous...

Believers or Followers? Religion has had a profound effect on human culture; unfortunately, the trouble with it is faith, which creates skepticism in many individuals. In order to accommodate the issue of faith, religions have regulations, values, and ceremonies, making religion a belief system, hence creating clarity to support faith. Catholicism has become a belief system that feeds its follower with answers; however, these answers are only assumptions. There are no factual answers, and as a result, religious leaders have created an expectation in which religion is supposed to fit; nonetheless, its accuracy is unknown. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story â€Å"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,† the values of religion are the center of†¦show more content†¦The man with enormous wings comes to earth in a grotesque form and because of this he is denied to be an angel. Additionally, the false believers within society tortured Jesus, just as how the man with enormous wings is ill-treated by the false believers of the society. Furthermore, Jesus is known to have cured the sick, and when the man with enormous wings falls into Pelayo and Elisenda’s backyard, their child is cured of a fever. Moreover, Jesus is good with children and later in the story the man with enormous wings and the child of Pelayo and Elisenda form a bond. Both Christ and the man with enormous wings endure harsh ridicule because they test the true faith of society. It is very easy to simply refer to oneself as a religious individual; however, it is difficult to always uphold a religious demeanor and because of this, the society’s practice of religion conveys to be merely a faà §ade. Similar to the criticism of Christ, the people within the story’s society question the authenticity of the man with enormous wings because of his unexpected appearance. The Pharisees, along with many others were skeptical that Jesus was the Messiah because his appear ance did not fit the divinity they anticipated a Christ figure should acquire. Similarly, the man with enormous wings comes to Earth in a form that goes against the expectations of the people, with â€Å"only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful