¶ … Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Point-of-View -- the author presents the perceptions of the villagers who live in isolation and are suddenly shaken by the arrival of someone so unlike them in stature and appearance. First, the women, then the men, construct an ideal from the tallness and overall attractiveness of the drowned man. He represents a myth, which mingles with their collective sense of reality and is moved by it. Even when they decide to throw him back into the sea as their burial tradition, they design their future according to the image of this admirable drowned man so that they too may one day be admired by others.
Genre -- Magical realism fuses magic and reality. The reality part is the everyday and routine ways of the villagers in the isolated island. The magic is the sudden arrival of the dead body of this magnificent man so unlike them or their wildest dreams. He simply does not occur to them and they do not know how to classify him. Nevertheless, the villagers decide to live with the impact of this strange and new experience. It opens up to them an entirely new perception of their future. Instead of feeling threatened by the newness o the experience, they accept what he symbolizes and then collectively decide to frame their future according to his unique qualities.
Imagery -- This is basically one of the sea where the village men fish the drowned man out of. The children who first find the dead body assume that Esteban is a ship and then a...
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