Daily Archives: February 4, 2022

In the short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez an entire village is impacted by the arrival of a stranger. At first sight, a floating being is nothing new or out of the ordinary, it is just another day for this town. Once discovered this being is a beautiful and sincere man who lost his life, the townsman are influenced and left with a new view on life. From the first introduction to the last moment, there is growth from both the women and the men of this community. The women did not see him as an actual person who lost their life until he was given a name, Esteban. They decided to fantasize and dream of what this man could’ve been for them opposed to the life lost and how he got to where he was. The men immediately grew a dislike due to the adoration of the townswomen and simply did not care enough about the man to even notice his sincerity and uniqueness. In the end, Esteban had his own town, a man with no words, just a face with mystery helped change the hearts of everyone. I believe the story was chosen to encourage and enlighten students to broaden their horizons. Help us learn not to judge a book by its cover too soon and try to understand the background of others before coming to conclusions. This short story demonstrates how one person can change and impact the lives of others simply with a face of sincerity and kindness.

I think professor assigned us this story “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as the first story because the story it seems to be a novel, and I believe this story will be similar to other assignments we will have. This story was like an imagination. When I first started to read from the beginning, I imagined a drowned man and seems to take on the shape. The children started to think that the drowned man was the enemy ship because they never have seen him. As the people of the town attempted to discover his identity and prepare his body for burial, they discover he taller, strong and more handsome than any man they ever have seen. When they thought he might be a whale, after they realize he is a drowned man, they treated him like he was from there and belongs there. By the end of the story, his presence has influenced them make their own village and their own lives better than they had previously imagined possible.

I think the professor assigned the story “The Most Handsomest Dead Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as the first story to show the students that this course will teach a good lesson and a good read at the same time. This may also set the tone for the semester. During the first few paragraphs the story put an image in my mind of a dead guy that arrived on the beach shore with better features than all the men in their village. This story is big on imagination which is what I like. I liked how the story turned out because Esteban was just a good looking dead guy that arrived up on the shore of the beach and inspired the rest of the village to do and be better. When the village saw Esteban and his amazing features it put an idea in the men and women, and they wanted to make him Rest In Peace by changing the village in which they imagined he would like. They decide to create a life for the dead man in return the dead man gives life to the village.

The reason why I think this story(“The Handsomest Drowned Man”)  was chosen for us to read is that this is a very interesting short story, and with a lot of questions to ask about, it is also a nice way to start the course with a fantasy story because the drowned man seems like imagination or illusion for me in a way. Esteban The Handsomest Drowned Man changes to villages in a way people rethinking of themselves “They secretly compared him to their own…most useless creatures on earth”. Also, the details from the dead body, women in the village can imagine what kind of person Esteban is and the things he has been through, which is very incredible because the dead body can’t talk about what happened to him, but women in the village can from the smallest details to a story. Personally, for me, the story seems like the dead body entering a place where it is an isolated land.

While reading “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel García Márquez it really makes me attracted to the story as it gives it truly makes you wonder how others see and contemplate you, all things considered like how the people in this story give life to death man and how it treated their village and also In the story, the body of a suffocated man cleans up in a little, distant town by the sea Before the finish of the story, his essence has impacted them to make their own town and their own lives better compared to what they had recently envisioned conceivable. The suffocated man appears to assume the state of anything the villagers have ever seen. Maybe this story was given to make us understand that it contends a genuinely incredible individual has the ability to transform others, to motivate them to be better, to make them need to be remarkable.

I think the professor assigned the story “The Most Handsomest Dead Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as the first story to show the students that this course will teach a good lesson and a good read at the same time. This may also set the tone for the semester. During the first few paragraphs the story put an image in my mind of a dead guy that arrived on the beach shore with better features than all the men in their village. This story is big on imagination which is what I like. I liked how the story turned out because Esteban was just a good looking dead guy that arrived up on the shore of the beach and inspired the rest of the village to do and be better. When the village saw Esteban and his amazing features it put an idea in the men and women, and they wanted to make him Rest In Peace by changing the village in which they imagined he would like. They decide to create a life for the dead man in return the dead man gives life to the village.

While reading this story I believe that the reason we were assigned to read this is because you want us all to participate and to come together and work as one. This idea came to me because as it states in the second paragraph they say that they found a whale along the sea which came out the water but when they cleaned it a little better it instead was a man who drowned so the first thing they did with his body was take it to someone reliable to find out a little more about it and how it could have ended up on the sand. They then were trying to come to solutions that it could’ve been some one apart of the village so they wanted to go around and make sure it was not. This to me shows that they are working as a team to find out what really happened to the guy and who he really is.

After reading “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I’ve concluded that there are many similarities in how the villagers encounter the most handsome drowned man and how we students are encountering this story. The reading shows us the state of the villager’s pre and post-meeting of the drowned man and how they interpret and react to the new experience. By having this as the first story of the course, it forces us into a similar situation in which we reflect on the nature of the story and what our reactions are to it. In the story, the author makes a point of having both the villagers and the body have no identity. We are not given the name of the village nor is the body someone the villagers know. Through interacting with it, the villagers name it Estaban. Pre-Estaban we find the villagers as just some nameless village, lacking any distinctness to call their own. Afterward, the villagers decide to change their village to be as welcoming to Estaban as possible, enlarging doors, heightening roofs, and strengthening floors. Their whole village becomes devoted to Estaban and it gains the identity of Estaban’s village. We, students, are in a similar situation where before we start this assignment we are just names on a roster. After the story, we create an identity based on what we post on the discussion board and we decide how to react to this story and how this helps us grow as students. In conclusion, I think the reason why this was chosen as the first story for this class is because of the similarities of the story and our situation as students and what conclusions we draw from it.