Yesenia

I think that Professor Conway might have assigned “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World”  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to us as our first read so we can think outside the box and play with our imagination and ideas in order to create something meaningful in preparation for our upcoming weekly assignments.  In this story, we see how the villagers are introduced to this drowned man that showed up on the beach out of nowhere.  They didn’t know who he was or where he was from.  All they knew is that he didn’t look like them.  They named him “Esteban” to give him an identity and by doing so, they created an elaborated story to bring forth life to Esteban, who was actually a dead man.  I see the similarities between the villagers and us trying to write an essay.  We have an idea, a focus point and then we gather all the supporting details to construct it.  Just like the villagers did with Esteban, when they cleaned, dressed and brought everyone together.