After watching Big Fish and reading A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings they are very similar stories and teach really good life lessons. In the movie Big Fish directed by Tom Burton its a story about a father and a son who really don't have the best relationship. The father, Edward Bloom was so obsessed with this one fish that he kept on telling stories about it which the son, William Bloom had had enough after Edward had told the same story at William's wedding. They went there separate ways for a couple years. Williams said in the movie, " We were like strangers who knew each other very well". As time goes by not talking to his father for a couple years in those years Edward Bloom had gotten very sick. William had come back to see his father and their relationship had changed. The night in the hospital Edward had awakened from a stroke that happened earlier the day before and was surprised to see his son William sitting right there next to him. When Edward was a young boy he had saw a flash forward of his death and it was "the river". At the end of the William had brought his father to the river and there were his friends throughout his life there to support him. William had said to his father at the end of the movie, "You become what you what you always were. A very big fish". The fish that Edward had remembered turned out to be him.
In the story
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings written by Gabriel García Márquez is about this old man who is an ordinarily old man with wings. One day a couple named Pelayo and Elisenda had found an old man with wings in their yard and wanted to keep it. The old man had become an entertainment to people. "He's an angel, she told them. He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down"(Márquez 1). The old man was referred to as an angel. The couple used the old man to earn money. They had collected money from everyone who wanted to see this abnormal creature. They had built a house with the money they had made off of the old man and shortly after had a son. The old man was getting older and was eventually going to die. But then one day he had become more strong and gained back all of his feathers. "Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass over the last house, holding himself up in some way with risky flapping of senile vulture"(Márquez 5). The old man had flew away and began a new life. These two stories of
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and Big Fish were both about living new lives. They had both got treated poorly by people but at the end they were very loved.
