GRADE 10 ENGLISH

4. CRYPTOZOOLOGY
 A pseudoscience involving the search
for animals whose existence has not
been proven

5. WORD BANK

6. 1. STUPOR
 A condition in which someone is not
able to think normally

7. 2. BUZZARD
 A large bind of prey that eats carasses
(like a turkey vulture)

8. 3. BAILIFF
 An officer employed to make arrests,
keep order in court, etc.

9. 4. CONJECTURE
 An opinion or idea formed without
proof

10. 5. ANTIQUARIAN
 A person who collects, studies or sells
valuable things

11. 6. SIDEREAL
 Expressed in relation to stars or
constellations

12. 7. CATACLYSM
 Something that causes great
destruction

13. 8. CHANTEY
 A song sung by sailors in rhythm with
their work

14. 9. DECREPITUDE
 The state of being old and in bad
condition or poor health

15. 10. CANNULA
 A small tube for insertion into a body
cavity

16. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
 Columbian novelist, short-story writer,
screenwriter, and journalist
 Known as “Gabo” in Latin America
 One of the most significant authors of
the 20th century
 Awarded the 1972 Neustadt
International Prize for Literature and
1982 Prize in Literature

17. A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings

18. THEME
 MAGIC REALISM - A style of fiction that
paints a realistic view of the modern world
while also adding magical elements

19. CHARACTERS

20.  PELAYO - father of the child and Elisenda's
husband. He discovers the old man in his
backyard.
 ELISENDA - Other of the child and Pelayo's
wife. Elisenda is the one who comes up with the
idea of charging people to see the old man.
 The Old Man - Very dirty, and he speaks an
incomprehensible language that no one
understands. It has a wings that can fly.

21.  Father Gonzaga - Father Gonzaga is the
town priest and the authority figure of the town
 The Neighbors - Said to know everything
about life and death and paid money to see the
Old Man.
 Spider Woman - Essentially comes and takes
the Old Man's fame.
 The Child - The child is Pelayo and Elisenda's
newborn baby, who is ill. The Old Man and the
child are somewhat connected and play together.

22. The story begins after three days of rain. Crabs are infesting
Pelayo and Elisenda’s house and causing a horrible stench,
which is believed to be making their baby sick. When Pelayo
comes back from throwing the crabs into the sea, he sees a
very old man with wings laying face down in mud in his
courtyard. Pelayo goes to get his wife and they examine the
man. He is dressed like a “rag picker” and is very dirty. After
staring at him for so long, Pelayo and Elisenda are able to
overcome their initial shock of seeing the man with wings.
They try to speak to him but the man speaks in an
incomprehensible dialect. They decide he is a castaway from a
shipwreck however a neighbor informs them that the man is an
angel.

23. The following day the entire town knows about the man
with wings who is said to be an angel. Pelayo decides to
chain up the man and keep him in the chicken coop. A
day later when the rain stops, the baby is feeling better
and is able to eat. Pelayo and Elisenda want to send the
old man out to sea with food and water for three days
and let nature take care of him. However, when they go
out to their courtyard, they see a mass of people
gathered around the chicken coop to see the angel.
They were harassing him by treating him like he were
not a person but a circus animal.

24. Father Gonzaga comes by the house because he was
surprised by the news of the angel. At this time,
onlookers were making hypothesis about what should
happen to the angel. They were saying things like “he
should be the leader of the world,” or “he should be a
military leader so to win all wars.” Father Gonzaga was
not fooled by these rumors. To determine whether the
man was an angel or not, Father Gonzaga spoke to him in
Latin.

25. Since the man with wings did not recognize Latin and
looked too human, the priest decided the man could not
be an angel. Father Gonzaga then warned the onlookers
that the man was in fact not an angel. However the
people did not care, and word spread that the old man
with wings was an angel.

26. People began coming from all over to Pelayo’s house
to see the angel. It reached a point that they had to
build a fence and charge people admission. However,
the man wanted nothing to do with his act. He
would do his best to get comfortable but his
audience tried to guess a reaction from him. At one
point, the audience poked him with hot iron
branding seers. The angel responded in anger by
flapping his wings and yelling in his strange
language.

27. Later, new carnival attractions arrive in town
bringing a woman who had metamorphosed into a
spider. The townspeople lose interest in the angel.
However, Pelayo and Elisenda were able to build a
mansion with the fortune they had gained by
charging admission. The child grows older and is told
not to go into the chicken coop. Yet the child does,
and later the child and old man had chicken pox at
the same time.

28. When the child was at the age of schooling, the
chicken coop had been broken down and the man
began to appear in Pelayo and Elisenda’s house. He
then moved into the shed and became very ill. Yet,
he survived the winter and became stronger. One
day, Elisenda was making lunch and looked out the
window to see the angel trying to fly. His first
attempts were clumsy, however, after time he was
able to gain altitude and fly away from Pelayo and
Elisenda’s house.

29. SYMBOLISM
 Wings represent power, speed, and limitless
freedom of motion. In the Christian
angels are often represented as beautiful
winged figures, and García Márquez plays
off of this cultural symbolism because,
ironically, the wings of the “angel” in the
story convey only a sense of age and
disease.