Compare-comparison: a very old man with enormous wings In his short story Gabriel García Márquez wrote “A very old man with enormous wings” which is a story about how an angel suddenly appears in a seaside town. Márquez's story is also adapted into a play by Little Angel Theater (LAT). In Márquez's original work, the story is told by a narrator, while the LAT show is made up of puppets and in the trailer there are no sounds but only visual effects provided by the puppets. There are many similarities between Márquez's original work and the LAT trailer; however, there are differences between the two stories that may change the meaning by the end of the story. Similarities In both Márquez's original version and LAT's trailer version of “A Very Old Man590) with very little hair and few teeth remaining. Its wings were also described as “large buzzard wings, dirty and half torn, forever entangled in the mud” (Márquez, p. 590). A completely different show in the LAT version of the story. The old man's wings seemed perfectly together and he was able to use them. Actually, the image of the old puppet with his large wings, sunken face casting darkness in his eyes has a rather sinister appearance; meanwhile the vision I have of the old man in Márquez's story is very different. From the beginning of the story until the end he appears to be more docile and seemingly harmless. At a certain point when the boy, quite young, entered the cage where some wires opened. The parents had tried to keep the boy away from the chicken coop but “began to lose their fears” (Márquez, p. 593) and let the boy enter the chicken coop. As the narrator states, the angel showed no particular interest in the boy, but put up with the boy with “the patience of a dog that has no illusions” Márquez (p. 593). There's a nice contrast in the LAT version, as the boy and the old man are very curious about each other, with the old man even reaching out to the boy with his wings. In one particular scene in the LAT, the old man literally took the young man under his protection. It seems that in both the play and the original story, Pelayo and Elisenda do not have the same stories. The stories begin much the same, however, there are some key differences in the Little Angel Theater company's plots that make the endings of the stories seem very different from the original. original story created by Márquez. I believe the differences are due to the fact that the puppet adaptation had to contain a little more action than the original work. The old man in Márquez's version practically remained in the henhouse, until he was destroyed by the elements. Pelayo and Elisenda reluctantly welcomed him into their home until they were fed up with him and “did him the charity of letting him sleep in the stable” Márquez (p. 594). As a writer, Márquez is able to describe the details of things in a very different way than in a play, especially with puppets, which would require the puppets to have striking characteristics and be more active than depicted in the story original. One final difference was the ending. In Márquez's original version, it was Elisenda who watched the old man with blunt wings begin to fly and as he gained altitude Elisenda "breathed a sigh of relief for herself and for him" (Márquez, p. 594) and continued to look at him until he was far away. In the LAT version, the man appears to fly away in the middle of the night, while Pelayo lies motionless, hoping to sleep. Other than that