The quote I selected “reading makes us immigrants of us all, it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere” by Jean Rhys embodies perfectly the essence of the story I chose “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel García Marquez. As I was reading the story, I was able to capture vivid images of the island and the houses of the people where the story is taking place. Because of how well, the narrator explains the details of the island and the houses of the people who live on the island.
For me, this quote signifies that as we read, the author’s precise descriptions of the story’s settings can enter our minds. And we start to become familiar with those places even though we haven’t seen them in real life or visited them. But because we can imagine them, we can know the place. An example is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story “The Handsomest Drowned Man” When we are reading the story, the narrator starts explaining the small doors and ceiling of the house. We could imagine some parts of the house. And how the villagers made them bigger, so the spirit of the man could pass through them.
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Nice post! We do seem to become part of this village when we read this story. It brings us to a new place we have never imagined, and soon we feel we belong there.