The Handsomest Drowned Man Close Reading Essay

Sha-Dasha Poe November 12, 2012 2nd Period Close Reading Essay Digging deep deep down The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Gabriel Garcia Marquez intoduction of The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World already questions the story just from the thought of the title. How can a drowned man be pretty is the main question. The title of the story itself portrays imagery, allegory and imagery. This handsome drowned man is the main character of this consentaneous story. To start with, this story is full of sea imagery.The story starts wrap up with children playing on a beach and notices something floating roughly in the sea. When the object eventually floats upun the shore, the children immediately starts to play with it. The object is described as a whale, a ship, and then a nasty sea monster. When Estebans body floated upon shore they removed the seaweed, jelly fish tentacles, and the remains of fish. We were told that he had the smell of the sea approximately him. The women of the town employ a sail to make him a shirt.The women also stated that if he were alive he would have had so much bureau that he could have drawn fish out of the sea by simply calling their names. Later at bottom the story, the women imagine his soft rap sea lion hands as he stretched out like a sprem whale. This drowned man is clearly known as an object of the sea. He comes from the sea in the beginning and eventually ends up back in the sea. The relationship of the drowned man to the sea initiates his role as a supernatural mythologic creature that didnt belong on earth as a human being.Furthermore, the author then goes to use allegory to represent the drowned man in comparison to something or someone else. The drowned man represents numerous mythical creatures and historical figures. First, the women of the village name him Esteban. At this very moment, Marquez has grabbed the readers attention as to who Esteban is and how did the villagers come about with this name. Esteban is a nother name for Estevanico which means a slave from the 1500s who was suppose to be the first man born in africa to ever step al-Qaida in the mericas. Esteban became legendary in Latin America and was given a list of incredible skills. Marquez also stated that the younger women hoped that the drowned man was Lautaro. Lautaro was a soldiers leader of the Native Americans. The handsomness and masculinaty of the drowned man inspires the young women that he is Lautaro. The representation of Esteban and Lautaro shows a hidden message of leaders in comparison to the drowned man. The author also used historical leaders to illustrate the meaning of the drowned man.Also, the author describes the town in the beginning as twenty odd wooden houses that had stone courtyards with no flowers. throughout the story the women imagined that if the drowned man was alive, he would have put so much work into his land that springs would burst through and that he would have planted flowers on the cliff. At this point, we notice the contrast beteen the villagers and the drowned man. The drowned man brings much color and liveliness to the grey town of the villagers.The drowned man also brings the thought of springs and flowers to the village. As the woman began to score his funeral, they went to go get flowers from neighboring villages. They then told the other women about the drowned man and they too followed the villagers to bring flowers t the funeral. After the other women seen the drowned man, they also startede to admire him and went to render more and more flowers. The flowers symbolize the ability of someone whos bulky to seek out others to do something great.They also symbolize love and respect to those who in one case lived. In Conclusion, the author used three literary devices to explain and bring out hidden messages of the story to grasp the readers attention. This is a great way to keep readers interested in the storys theme/central message. At this point, we now kno w that Marquez likes for the reader to dig deep within to understand the essential thought of the story. He used a drowned man to bring out the greatness of a whole village and to change their whole aspect of life within their own village.