What do I make of it? Well, to be honest I think of this story in the same sense of the movie, Nanny McFee. I don’t think that this story has the same moral as Nanny McFee, but I will say that it is close, with the whole part of someone coming who is in really bad shape and then leaves and is all healthy. Well, then again on the second thought, Nanny McFee was about a lady that was ugly and turned beautiful, so I guess that if one trades looks, in Nanny McFee, and replaces them with health from A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, they are very similar.
What meaning do you get out of it? Um, well, I am not really sure, but I will say that it is definitely odd. I think that one possible translation could be such that we need to be open to helping others, no matter how weird they are, but I do not suggest fencing them in and using them as a side attraction. I also think that we may think that life may give us someone to help, and then we realize that they helped us more than we intended to help them.
To be honest I don’t think that it does matter. They are some superstitious writings about mythology. I think that they are good stories, but nothing more than that. I do think that this does exemplify his upbringing, especially from his grandparents, due to the fact that that is probably who told him all the stories. I think that is says that you should write what you want to write about. If you have a passion for stories loosely based on mythology, then great, you should write about it because that is what you love. If you have some other passion like guns, history, or shopping, then why can’t you write about that and enjoy writing? I know I could be totally wrong about the interpretation, but that’s what I get out of the introduction and the about the author section, but to each his own.
I should point out that some other students seemed to get more out of this than you. For instance, Nataliya wrote: "I honestly could not put the book down until I finished it. There was so much depth and meaning that one can take away from Marquez piece." I don't point this out so that you can feel bad about not "getting much" from the story but to prompt you to reconsider it.
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