For this coffeehouse post, I read “A very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A tale for children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and “The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges. Both the stories had a lot of gothic elements and I will talk about the characters, plot points, and setting in this coffeehouse post.

First, let’s talk about “The House of Asterion”, Asterion is the main character in the story who is a half man half bull. He is not a regular man since he has bullhead and he doesn’t go outside his house because people are afraid of him. He is being feared by all the people and he is an arrogant person. Eventhogh he is a minotaur but most of the time he acts childish. He doesn’t have any friends, so he makes up games to play by himself. In the end, nine men die in front of him and he wants his redeemer to come for him and he doesn’t know how his redeemer will look like. Theseus believes the minotaur defended himself. Asterion lives in a Maze and he doesn’t do anything other than make a distractions for himself.

“A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, in the beginning, Pelayo was killing crabs where he found an Old man with wings near his courtyard. The old man looked like a poor and homeless guy. Pelayo put the old man in the cage and made him stay there. When people started to come to watch the old man, Pelayo started charging them money and he got rich from it. But in the end, Old man regained his strength and flew away from the house. Eventhough the pelayo wife was watching she didn’t do anything. The main characters are Old man, Pelayo, Elisenda, and their child. I think this story happens in a village.