Actions Speak Louder than Words

[rshofner1]

Today in class we discussed the short story, “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read through this story at a fairly quick pace the first time because it says that it’s a tale for children so I assumed it would be considerably easy to understand. Needless to say, I was wrong! I read it through one more time and I

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[laxguru92]

I really thought this story was cool. I still had a hard time understanding it but rereading stories definitely helps. I also use spark notes to help me understand a little better as well ha ha.

[mia_griffin]

I had trouble understand this too! Don't you think it's interesting how there are so many stories criticizing hypocritical Christians, but no matter what, there's still a very large base of Christians who remain hypocritical, no matter what?

[bubblious2011]

i think that that i soooo true. Actions do speak louder than words.

[rflores17]

this story was very interesting. I had to read it twice to understand better. I agree when you say that sometimes we are not grateful with what we have...and instead do things that are not right...