1. Identify the author and the literary work you are focusing on for your research essay.
- For my research essay, I will be focusing on “The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
2. Please share the actual word-for-word thesis statement of your research essay in your post.
- “The short story “The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
explores themes of mystery, reflection and magical realism by engulfing the readers in a concept
so strange it can only be described as a dream.”
3. Explain what specific kind of secondary source information you feel will support your thesis.
- I will be using a literary critique written by Rena Korb on “The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” for the secondary source information. This will support my thesis because she discusses García Márquez’s use of magic realism.
4. Identify the BMCC databases you have explored to date and what the results have been.
- I have explored OneSearch and Gale Literary Sources. OneSearch did not provide any articles in specific reference to this literary work but Gale Literary Sources proved to be more helpful in finding the specific critique I was looking for.
2 thoughts on “Sophia Morales Discussion 10”
Hi Sophia, your thesis statement is very intriguing and makes me want to read your essay. I also found “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” to be a mysterious and compelling story to write about. It seems like it will be very interesting to investigate how the author uses magical realism to transform a dead body that washed up on the shore of a small fishing village into an idol. The event in the story is so surreal and dream-like, it is hard to fathom this actually happening in real life, which makes it all the more exciting to read and discuss.
Sophia, thank you for the clarity and specificity of your post.