I think the reason that the professor assigned “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as the first story in the course to make us realize that there are two types of people, we should not judge a book by its cover, and it applies to judging people as well, the first type of people can be compared to the little boys that helped the drowned men and took him out of the sea and laid him on the floor, trying to help him in every way.while on the other side in the story the women started comparing the drowned men to the men of there village and started passing comment that if the drowned men were to live the same village as them the doors of the house would be really wide, the women started judging the drowned man without knowing the struggles or the difficulties that he went through.That is why I think the professor assigned this as. the first reading to make us aware that there are two different ways to look at a situation.
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I agree with many of the points that you have made about why this story was assigned. This story resembles morals and characters that go through different hardships, something that the reader can further dig down deep and identify. There are many ways to interpret the true meaning of the story and each perspective or idea will be bound to be different. Therefore, it is up to the reader to use emergent literacy skills and different ways of dissecting what the story is trying to portray. I believe this will be interesting on how we, as readers will be able to break down the story and build it back up with understanding.
Thanks for this input Samra I agree with everything you said, The woman were judging the drowned man treating him like a king for his massive size without knowing he is ashamed of his massive size, when the people of the village started to understand what the drowned man went through in his life they changed their ways and did more to
accommodate for the drowned man giving him a proper funeral and thinking about him. they used this to change their village and homes making everything bigger for the drowned man.