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Cruelty Vs Compassion - Nandini, Ella, Sophie, Rachel

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Cruelty Vs Compassion - Nandini, Ella, Sophie, Rachel

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One quote that shows compassion is when Gertrudis asks Tita "'You've seemed distant for quite a while. Tell me, what is about? It's about Pedro, right?'" (189).

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Quote from October- Makayla, Sophia, Martha, and Emma

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Quote from October- Makayla, Sophia, Martha, and Emma

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"Why didn't you tell me?I wanted to decide what to do first. And have you decided? No.I think it would be good for you to knowbefore you make a decision that for me,having a child with youis the best stroke of luck, and to enjoy it the way we should, I would like to go far away from here with you." (Esquivel, 192)

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Compassion: Tita is showing her compassion to Pedro by aiding him after he has suffered burns “Tita, holding Pedro’s unburnt hand, refused to leave his side”

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When Pedro heard about Tita’s pregnancy he says “”..having a child with you is the best stroke of luck, and to enjoy it the way we should, I would like to go far away from here with you””(Esquirel 193). Because of Pedro’s ignorance, he complétala ignores the other people in his life he has to provide for giving a sense of cruelty. He thought this way until Tita says “”We can’t only think of ourselves, there are also Rosaura and Esperanza to consider. What’s going to happen to them””( Esquivel 193). This shows compassion in the book because Tita couldn’t bare the thought of leaving her sister and her sisters baby with nobody to provide for them.

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“They all laughed at that, but when Rosaura explained that he couldn’t because this little girl was destined to take care of her until the day she died, Tita felt her hair stand on end. Only Rosaura could have thought to perpetuate such an inhuman tradition” (Esquirel, 160)

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Through his love for Tita Pedro is cruel to Rosaura. “ he practically avoided her. That alone didn’t worry her too much; Pedro had never been disposed to Sexual excess. It wasn’t just that, it was his attitude-in it she detected his Frank rejection of her” (Page 170).

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September Chapter: Aaron C, Ethan W, Parker Z, Travis N

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September Chapter: Aaron C, Ethan W, Parker Z, Travis N

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Cruelty is shown in the September chapter when Mama Elena comes back as a ghost to torment Tita for her "poor" decisions. After Tita found out she was pregnant, Mama Elena comes back as a ghost and curses Tita and the baby. The text states "Yes, it is! I curse it! It and you, forever!"(Esquivel, 173)

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Tita had previous experience with being a caregiver and wanted more for her niece so, “ she had to make a supreme effort, not to shout at her sister. That it was the sickest idea she had heard in her life.”

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The theme of cruelty vs. compassion is shown in LWFC when Mama Elena tells Tita, after tell her she can never marry, "You don't have an opinion, and that's all I ever want to hear about it" (Esquivel). Compassion is shown when "John, ignoring Mama Elena's order, had not put Tita in a madhouse but he had taken her to live with him" (Esquivel).

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Cruelty vs. Compassion is shown in the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" when "Pelayo threw a blanket over him and extended him the charity of letting him sleep in the shed, and only then did they notice that he had a temperature at night, and was delirious with the tongue twisters of an old Norwegian," (Marquez). While that is compassionate, cruelty was shown when, with the angel, " the hens pecked at him, searching for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing" (Marquez).

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1. "...Mama Elena spit the soup on the bedspread and yelled at Tita to get the tray out of her sight immediately"
2. "Furiously, she threw the tray to the floor and ordered Chencha out of the house, for having tried to deceive her."
3 "His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half plucked, were forever entangled in the mud."
4. "Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop."

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Cruelty vs. Compassion quotes (Martha C)

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Cruelty vs. Compassion quotes (Martha C)

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Cruelty vs. Compassion is established right away when Pelayo, Elisenda and the town first hande their interaction with the angel.
Quote 1: Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high seas. But when they went out into the courtyard with the first light of dawn, they found the whole neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren’t a supernatural creature but a circus animal.
After all the things the old man went through he was compassionate and patient with the people. (4)
Quote 2: The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act. Especially during the first days, when the hens pecked at him, searching for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing. His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience. (8)

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Cruelty is shown when they brand the angel, "The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead." (5)

Compassion in the story is shown by the wife when she sees the angel fly away. She "let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass over the last houses", showing that he was finally free and that she was happy for him.

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1. A quote that shows cruelty in the old man story is when all of the people are treating him like an animal rather than a human. The text states "But when they went out into the courtyard with the first light of dawn, they found the whole neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren’t a supernatural creature but a circus animal."(Marquez)

2. A quote that shows compassion is when the mom witnesses the old man take flight and leave. She is happy for him now that he is not going to get made fun of. The text states "She kept watching him even when she was through cutting the onions and she kept on watching until it was no longer possible for her to see him, because then he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea."(Marquez)

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"The doctor who took care of the child couldn’t resist the temptation to listen to the angel’s heart, and he found so much whistling in the heart and so many sounds in his kidneys that it seemed impossible for him to be alive. What surprised him most, however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have them too." (Marquez)
"The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead. He awoke with a start, ranting in his hermetic language and with tears in his eyes, and he flapped his wings a couple of times, which brought on a whirlwind of chicken dung and lunar dust and a gale of panic that did not seem to be of this world." (Marquez)

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1. “Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high seas (“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, Paragraph 4).” In this quote, the family is deciding what to do with the man in the first days that he is living with them, and they treat him like a burden rather than a person. This quote shows how the family chose to be cruel instead of caring towards the man.

2. “The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act. He spent his time trying to get comfortable in his borrowed nest, befuddled by the hellish heat of the oil lamps and sacramental candles that had been placed along the wire (“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, Paragraph 8).” The angel, despite the cruelty he has experienced, remains humble and struggles to find comfort.

3. “It made her feel like a fool for having returned to the ranch to care for her mother… The only way Tita would ever be free of her mother was when she died, and Mama Elena wasn’t ready for that (“Like Water for Chocolate”, July).” This shows how Mama Elena treats Tita with cruelty, not compassion, and the taste of the food she prepares is a result of that.

4. “The one who lasted the longest was a deaf-mute; she put up with it for 15 days, but she left when Mama Elena told her in signs that she was an idiot (“Like Water for Chocolate”, July).” Cruelty is a part of Mama Elena’s character in this chapter and it contrasts the compassionate behavior of the other characters.

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Dr. John Brown took Tita into his house, " Tita would never be able to thank him enough...But here with with John's warmth toward her in word and manner , she felt better each day." (Esquivel, 108)
John's Grandfather and family was extremely racist towards the young girl, " One of their first was to give her the nickname 'the Kikapu' instead of calling her by her real name" (Esquivel, 111)

Enormous wings story
The villagers were very cruel towards the angel " The only time they succeed arousing him, was when they burned his side with an  Iron"
The cruelty from the villagers also caused the angel to get very sick " The angel would drag, here and there"

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Cruelty v. Compassion Quotes - Ethan Wise

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Cruelty v. Compassion Quotes - Ethan Wise

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Even though Tita vowed not to return to the ranch, after hearing the terrible thing that happened to Mama Elena and Chencha she does. "It was a good thing she hadn't said anything, because when Tita returned to the ranch after hearing about their calamity..." (129) This shows compassion.

After Tita returns and cooks for Mama Elena, Mama Elena treats her harshly still. "...but Mama Elena spit the soup on the bedspread and yelled to Tita to get the tray out of her sight immediately." (130) This shows cruelty.

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When Mama Elena was hurt and Tita was taking care of her she refused to eat it and her wickedness made her taste the food differently, saying "it is nasty and bitter, and I don't want it take it away." (130)

The compassion is shown between the sisters often, most notably between Gertrudis and Tita when Gertrudis runs away and Tita still loves her and understands. Gertrudis writes to her and says "Dear Tita: You can't know how grateful I am that you sent me clothes." (125)

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LWFC Cruelty vs. Compassion Quotes - Aaron Coreil

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LWFC Cruelty vs. Compassion Quotes - Aaron Coreil

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1. A quote that shows cruelty is when Tita cooks for Mama Elena but she refuses to eat it because she thinks that Tita is trying to poison her. Mama Elena assumes the worst of Tita. The text states "Because it is nasty and bitter, and I don't want it. take it away! Don't you hear?"(Esquivel, 130).

2. A quote that shows compassion is when Tita is at Mama Elena's funeral. Tita mourns for her mother and feels sorry for her even after how she treated her. The text states "During the funeral Tita really wept for her mother. Not for the castrating mother who had repressed Tita her entire life, but for the person who had lived a frustrated love." (Esquivel, 138)

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After an angel fell into their yard, they went to their wise neighbor woman to see what they should do with him. After learning he was an angel, "he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop"(Márquez). He had no remorse for him and did not care for his well being. AFter years of staying at their house, the old man flew off. The wife "let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass over the last houses"(Márquez). This shows that they finally got a little compassion towards the poor angel and cared for him.
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"With the first sip, Nacha appeared there at her side, stroking her hair as she ate, as she had done when she was little and was sick, kissing her forehead over and over...She cried as she hadn't cried since the day she was born.  How good it was to have a long talk with Nacha." (Esquirel, 124)
"Mama Elena had disowned her daughter. Without words, they made their mutual reproaches and thereby severed the strong tie of blood and obedience that had always bound them together, but could never be reestablished." (Esquirel, 129)

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The love that Tita feels she may have shared or shares with Pedro can show how compassionate that feeling can make someone, when it comes to love I think that all of the characters wish to feel it either again or for the first time.

"You must of course take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origin we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless."

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Cruelty's biggest motivation is personal greed.
This is shown by how the family earned money through seeing the angle and used their money for a mansion. "With the money they saved they built a two-story mansion with balconies and gardens and high netting so that crabs wouldn’t get in during the winter, and with iron bars on the windows so that angels wouldn’t get in."

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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Cruelty v Compassion Quotes (Sean Hurley)

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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Cruelty v Compassion Quotes (Sean Hurley)

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"He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn't get up, impeded by his enormous wings".

"His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar".

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compassion vs cruelty
when mama Elena was injured, Tita cooked to take care of her but refused to eat it, she said " it is nasty and bitter, and I don't want it take it away. Don't you hear." p.130

when John was talking to mama Elena she said they could not marry, "Their was no point, for he had resolved to marry Tita. With or without mamma Elena`s permission." p.132

The villagers were always curl to the angles so "the only time they succeed arousing him, Was when they burned his side from an iron.

Their cruelty caused the angle to get very sick " the angle would drag, here and there."

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In the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" the author introduces the cruel conditions the angel would be under when the house owner Elisenda "..got the idea of fencing in the yard and charging five cents admission to see the angel"(Márquez). This idea was cruel because she was going to profit off of the hurt angel while taking little to no care of him. However at the end of the short story the same house owner watches the angel grow strength and leave. The author says "Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass over the last houses, holding himself up in some way with the risky flapping of a senile vulture" (Márquez). This demonstrates compassion because she knew it was his time to leave after such a long time of pain.
On the other hand, in LWFC cruelty is demonstrated by mama Elena. The author says "Mama Elena had disowned her daughter"(Esquirel 30) to establish the current and recurring cruel relationship between Tita and Mama Elena. After Tita had found Mama Elenas secret letters, "She put everything away just as she had found it, back in its place" (Esquirel 75-76). This demonstrate compassion because Tita, despite how cruel her mother was to her all her life, chose to respect her mother after her death after getting her own closure.

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Compassion-
"You can't know how grateful I am that you sent me my clothes." This is compassion because he gave her her clothes.

Cruelty-  "'You know how men. They all say they wont eat off a plate that isn't clean'" this is mean because- wow thats awful

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"Each time she had managed to light a match, it had persistently been blown out"

"She did not want to return to the ranch. She never wanted to live near mama elena again"

"She had to find someone who could kindle her desire. Could that someone be john."

"Tita felt rears run down her face. Gently, John dried them with his handkerchief."

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compassion vs cruelty
when mama Elena was injured, Tita cooked to take care of her but refused to eat it, she said " it is nasty and bitter, and I don't want it take it away. Don't you hear." p.130

when John was talking to mama Elena she said they could not marry, "Their was no point, for he had resolved to marry Tita. With or without mamma Elena`s permission." p.132

The villagers were always curl to the angles so "the only time they succeed arousing him, Was when they burned his side from an iron.

Their cruelty caused the angle to get very sick " the angle would drag, here and there."

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This story shows cruelty through the idea the people disregarded that an angel had been lost, and although he didn't look beautiful like many thought an angel would, he still was one.

"Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm."

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compassion vs cruelty
when mama Elena was injured, Tita cooked to take care of her but refused to eat it, she said " it is nasty and bitter, and I don't want it take it away. Don't you hear." p.130

when John was talking to mama Elena she said they could not marry, "Their was no point, for he had resolved to marry Tita. With or without mamma Elena`s permission." p.132

The villagers were always curl to the angles so "the only time they succeed arousing him, Was when they burned his side from an iron.

Their cruelty caused the angle to get very sick " the angle would drag, here and there."

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1. When the town is curious about the angel and trying to find a may to make him react, the text states "The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead. He awoke with a start, ranting in his hermetic language and with tears in his eyes, and he flapped his wings a couple of times, which brought on a whirlwind of chicken dung and lunar dust and a gale of panic that did not seem to be of this world" (Marquez 5).
2. When the old man is allowed to be alone and is protected from the attentions of the town, the text states "At the beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow on his wings, the feathers of a scarecrow, which looked more like another misfortune of decrepitude" (Marquez 8).
3. When Chencha offers Tita the kindness of making her ox-tail soup, the text states "With the first sip, Nacha appeared there at her side, stroking her hair... John blessed Chencha and her ox-tail soup for having accomplished what none of his medicines had been able to do--make Tita weep" (Esquivel 124).
4. When Mama Elena berates Tita after Tita makes her dinner, the text states "Tita turned away, trying not to let her mother see her frustration... It was beyond her comprehension that one person, whatever her relationship with another, could reject a kind gesture in such a brutal manner, just like that, so high-handedly" (Esquivel 130).

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a show of cruelty in a very old man with enormous wings they renew everything but then say "The chicken coop was the only thing that didn’t receive any attention." this is mean to the chickens showing cruelty.

"from then on they were careful not to annoy him, because the majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose." this shows compassion to the person as to not annoy them

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Throughout LWFC, Tita has been very helpful and caring for her oldest sibling Gertrudis. For example, Gertrudis writes a letter to Tita saying "Dear Tita: You can't know how grateful I am that you sent me my clothes"(Esquivel 125). On the other hand, she has still had many problems with her mother that she cannot fix. Throughout the July chapter, Tita is taking care of Mama Elena by cooking food for her. However, Mama Elena doubted Tita's morals and thought she was poisoning her.  After Tita cooked Mama Elena her best soup, she screamed at Tita "it is nasty and bitter, and I don't want it. Take it away! Don't you hear?"(Esquivel 130). This shows how she tried her best to help her mom when all her mom did was be cruel to her.
-Parker Z

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LWFC Cruelty v Compassion quotes (Sean Hurley)

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LWFC Cruelty v Compassion quotes (Sean Hurley)

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"Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro."

"She was remembering the pleasant sensation that ran through her body when he took her hand in the laboratory".

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Theme Statement - Mia Mraz and Erica Sexton

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Theme Statement - Mia Mraz and Erica Sexton

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1. Compassion can foster growth, while cruelty can keep people down.
2. Marquez uses symbolism, conflict, point of view, and tone to develop the theme.
3. When the angel has been left alone and escaped the cruelty, the text states "At the beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow on his wings, the feathers of a scarecrow, which looked more like another misfortune of decrepitude. But he must have known the reason for those changes, for he was quite careful that no one should notice them, that no one should hear the sea chanteys that he sometimes sang under the stars" (Marquez 8). By escaping the cruelty, he is no longer being held down and hurt, and he can grasp the small bit of compassion they have offered him by respecting his right to be alone. This lets him grow and thrive enough to escape and survive.

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1. Cruelty harms people while compassion gives people the strength to heal.
2. Symbolism, characterization, magical realism.
3. "The angel was no less standoffish with him than with the other mortals, but he tolerated the most ingenious infamies with the patience of a dog who had no illusions. They both came down with the chicken pox at the same time."

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Just because someone is different, doesn't mean they deserve to be treated differently.
"They both came down with the chicken pox at the same time."

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1. In a need to understand the unknown, people can be cruel to the things/people they do not know even though people should be compassionate.
2. Marquez uses plot, conflict and characterization.
3."But when they went out into the courtyard with the first light of dawn, they found the whole neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren’t a supernatural creature but a circus animal."

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Theme 

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Theme 

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Marquez develops the idea of cruelty through an "angel" becoming hurt/sick because the way he is treated.

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1) Assumptions can turn into cruelty but empathy can turn into compassion
2) characterization of the angel, symbolism, plot, mood
3) "She kept watching him even when she was through cutting the onions and she kept on watching until it was no longer possible for her to see him, because then he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea."

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Heidi, Gage, Lila, Estevan           Theme statement: You that people how you want to be treated. 

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Heidi, Gage, Lila, Estevan           Theme statement: You that people how you want to be treated. 

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list:
symbolism
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characterization
quote:
"They both came down with the chicken pocks at the same time"

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Marquez develops the idea of greed through humanity.

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Here are some of our best theme statements so far

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Here are some of our best theme statements so far

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1. Cruelty pushes those under their control to break down.

2. Sometimes we repress our feelings until small losses force them to the surface.

3. Compassionate relationships are often one-sided: there is a giver and a taker.

4. Isolation can be far crueler than any words or violence.

5. Too much compassion for someone or something can create unnecessary cruelty.

6. In a need to understand the unknown, people can be cruel to the things/people they do not know even though people should be compassionate.

7. Just because someone is different, doesn't mean they deserve to be treated differently.

8. Compassion can foster growth, while cruelty can keep people down.

9. Cruelty harms people, while compassion gives people the strength to heal.

10. Assumptions can turn into cruelty but empathy can turn into compassion.

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How you treat others displays your own personality.
Plot, characterization, acts of characters, symbolism, connection between characters, state of angels wings.
days. "He remained motionless for several days in the farthest corner of the courtyard, where no one would see him, and at the beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow on his wings, the feathers of a scarecrow,"

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Theme Statement- Jesmayln, Cailin, Britney, and Sydney 

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Theme Statement- Jesmayln, Cailin, Britney, and Sydney 

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1)Cruellty pushes those under their control to break down.
2)mood, plot, symbolism of her hands
3)"In a mad house she might have become truly insane"(Esquivel, 108)
"She could move them however she pleased, yet she didn't know what to do with them... She had never taken time to stop and think about these things"(Esquivel, 109)

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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" Cruelty v Compassion quotes (Ethan Wise)

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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" Cruelty v Compassion quotes (Ethan Wise)

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Throughout "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" the old man stays calm and patient when the people are messing with him. "The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead." This shows cruelty.

After the old man is driven out of the room. "Pelayo threw a blanket over him and extended him the charity of letting him sleep in the shed, and only then did they notice that he had a temperature at night, and was delirious with the tongue twisters of an old Norwegian." This shows compassion.