A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings -Un Hombre Muy Viejo Con Unas Alas Enormes
I found a copy of this story with both the English and Spanish version side by side. I read the Spanish version out loud to myself, and whenever I came across a word or phrase I did not know, I referred to the English version. This short story not only helped me improve my vocabulary, but it also helped me take in the information stated in the text. Once I finished the Spanish version, I read the story again in English to test how much information I obtained while reading in Spanish. Marques is a very talented writer, so some words and sentences were tricky to translate between languages. It is not possible to make a word by word translation of the text. This story is about a man named Pelayo who finds an old, filthy, disoriented and homeless looking man with enormous wings in his courtyard while killing crabs. Sparked with curiosity, he immediately notifies his wise neighbor about his finding. She concludes that the man is actually an angel whose mission was to take their ill chi...