I believe the reason we were assigned “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as the first reading is to distinguish our analyzing and processing skills. For example, the story begins with establishing the setting, but the writer wrote it with so much imagery that we the reader can clearly see the setting as we continue reading the text. Marquez also brought of something I found extremely interesting which is the thinking of the women and men in the village. For example, the women in the village gave the dead man a background story where he seemed heroic while on the other hand the men were enraged by the treatment, they saw the stranger receiving and were agitated, in the text it states “men finally exploded with since when has there ever been such a fuss over a drifting corpse, a drowned nobody, a piece of cold Wednesday meet”. (Marquez Pg. 6) Marquez using exploded in this part of the reading made it clear to the reader that the men were angry with what they were seeing concerning the dead man, the “drowned nobody” as the men in the village called him.
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Hi Jonathan, I agree with you on why she might have picked this story first. This story does make us analyze it and makes us really think about how they lived. The writer does give us lots of words of imagery. With each word we can think about how they lived in the village. I also agree with how they women viewed the drowned man, and how the men of the village viewed him. I thought it was funny how the writer made us feel ourselves about this beautiful naked man. A stranger who washed up on their shore. Professor Conway really wants us to think and maybe feel the magic of this story.
Hello Jonathan, I agree with your insights and as your contribution on my post about why the professor might have chosen this story as our first reading. It prompts us to analyze the village life deeply. The imagery allows us to picture the scenes clearly. The contrasting perspectives towards the drowned man are fascinating, and the author making us ponder our own reactions and imagination is remarkable. This story sets the stage for future readings, inviting us to explore the richness of literature.