In the short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", by Gabrial Marquez, two carnivals occur simultaneously. The carnivals take place in a small town, sicken with poverty on the shore of the ocean. In one of the carnivals, there was a very old man with enormous wings whom the townspeople believed was an angel. In the second carnival, there was a woman who, at a young age, disobeyed her parents and was turned into a spider. The two carnivals had little in common and had different effects on the townspeople. The carnival with the angel was perceived as a threat because the angel who, Pelayo found in his backyard, was itself seen as a threat to the townspeople. The threat was expressed by the old wise lady," He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down"; Pelayo and Elisenda feared that the....

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