Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes how human reaction and human nature react in unusual situations in his story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." In this children's tale, he presents his characters with an angel and forces them to understand the contradiction of their expectations in the face of the angel's exotic appearance and fragility. Marquez's portrayal of human nature shows the extent to which humans must identify the unconventional with something commonly known. Marquez shows how humans process unknown information; Once the characters saw the man's wings, they automatically associated him with an angel, but as they continued to examine him, they noticed that his appearance did not meet their expectations, to which must look like an angel, he was continually considered an impostor. There was nothing heavenly about him and he spoke in an unknown language that didn't meet expectations either. In the story, Father Gonzaga depicts the old man as stinking and covered in parasites, all of which made the man seem opposed to the image of what an angel should look like (Akers). As a result of not being able to ...