A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In “A very old man with enormous wings” Gabriel Garcia Marquez illustrates how the Catholic Church is very disconnected with the people. He shows us how the church is making people question belief in hope and Catholicism.
The first reason I believe the author is trying to show us how the church is disconnected with its people is because as the short story clearly states “Nevertheless, he promises to write a letter to his bishop so that the latter would write to his primate so that the latter would write to the supreme pontiff in order to get to the final verdict from the highest courts” and later on in the short story an additional quote stating “Father Gonzaga held back the crowds frivolity with formulas of maidservant inspiration while awaiting the arrival of a final judgment on the nature of the captive. But the mail from Rome showed no sense of urgency. They spent the rest of their time finding out if the prisoner had a navel…” These two quotes together already how us how the Catholic Church has not responded with its people

When we read the part where the family starts charging the town people and others from far and wide they start to imitate the power of having the man with the enormous wings enclosed in what was like a chicken coup for an abnormal chicken. The man was all of a sudden a product placement for the family to make money and mother the others who are actually paying to see this “angel” that had fallen from the sky. The closer we get to the end of the short story we find out that the people coming from far and wide are slowly all losing faith and hope. This is an example of how corrupted the churches have become, to the point of its members and followers of god had started to lose all hope in