Why The Handsomest Drowned Man

The old man from the story A very old man with enormous wings and Esteban from the story The Handsomest drowned man in the world are opposites of each other, maybe the only similarity that they have is that they are both flat and static characters. First, they are different in terms on how they are portrayed. The old man who is an angel, was portrayed as an ugly old man who doesn’t even resemble an angel. We can see this in paragraph 2, “He was dressed like a rag picker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth…” While Esteban who is a only a dead guy was portrayed as a good looking guy.

In the world today, people are very divided. The focus on this topic is relationships, more specifically how it is relevant today and how it affects the world around us. The reson this topic is important, is because the world should not be as divided as it is. We should come together to build a better world.Everyone is affected by this issue of relationships. It is simple to think about, but broken down, it is very complex. there are personal relationships, buisness relationships, political relationships and much more. In the short story, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Garcia Marquez. In the short story, it describes how a village of closed minded people come to change to love a man whom they never knew. This is highly relevant in the modern world, because it is nothing like that at all, in fact, it is quite the oppoiste. Relationships come in many different forms, and one of the biggest is in politics. Relationships has many different viewpoints surrounding it and sometimes we need to learn to build relationships through the differences we might have.

The story of Enrique's Journey is about a young man struggling to find his mom in America, all the while desperately trying to cross multiple borders to reach the U.S. The theme of Enrique’s Journey is about poverty and how if affects the people around it. Sonia Nazario’s message about poverty is that it’s extremely rampant in central america and that it affects everyone around it. The theme of poverty is constantly shown throughout the book; the significance of it is that poverty greatly affects every aspect of life. I came to this conclusion based on the fact that she very descriptively describes life in Central America and how she uses this to allude to the many problems that Enrique must overcome.

The description of the road and river at the beginning creates the sense of sanctuary. For example, the description of the scene talks about the “Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and runs deep and green” creating a vivid and natural scene. This was intended to create an image that the time before the conflict later on in the story, there was a peaceful time when everything was calm.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World” achieves powerfully fantastic story-telling. As the story begins, we are met with the discovery of a floating corpse at sea that shores itself on an unassuming village’s beach. The drowned man is not of the village, which quickly piques the villagers curiosities. The villagers acknowledged him as a stranger among them, “…when they found the drowned man they simply had to look at one another to see that they were all there.” No one had seen him before.

In Washington in 1982 there was a plane crash on the pentatonic river. A man repeatedly saved other lives in the place of his own. Rosenblatt states “The odd thing is that we do not even really believe that the man in the water lost his fight.” This man had so much courage and faith to put others lives before his. This saying, he had a plan in mind, he followed through with it, and achieved it so he did not lose the fight, he really won, and also shared his victory with others. He gave up everything he had to give hope to others. Rosenblatt gave another point being, “When the helicopter took off with what was to be the last survivor, he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he deliberately let it happen.” One could think he was content with what he had done. He sacrificed himself for the life of another life. This being said, the anonymous man in the water not only saved 5 lives with a humble heart but gave hope to

In the novel Longboat Bay are the starting and the main setting. The characters Abel and his mother Dora lives on the land of Longboat Bay. The lands have been the Jacksons land for more than a century and have been taking care of it since now. Abel lives in a place with no main electricity from the city and no water except rainwater. The land around them is a national park and behind the house is the orchard. This is shown in the quote “and all the land around them was a national park.” And “there were orange and lemon trees in the orchard as well as olives and mulberries.” The sea is “rich in life” and the author invites the reader to want to care for the sea. This technique shows the beauty of the sea and the land around it.

The townspeople imagine how Esteban’s living space and family must of been just by looking at him, since he is the most handsomest man they have ever seen. However, the townspeople do not realize that someone's beauty does not show how they must have lived when they were alive.

Because Esteban becomes the leader of the Tres Marias hacienda, he assumes a sensual nature, but nonetheless an anxious, angry, and tense one as well, as exemplified by the symbolism and wordplay of Allende. In the first section of the passage, Allende represents Esteban’s mourning of Rosa’s death as during “The first months, Esteban Trueba was so busy channeling water, digging wells, removing stones, clearing pastures, and repairing the chicken coops and stable that the had no time to think about anything”(Allende). By using words such as “channeling,” “removing,” “clearing,” and “repairing,” it ultimately depicts meaning towards Esteban’s grief against the death of Rosa. For example, by “channeling” his anger, “removing” and “clearing” what he had with her, and by trying to “repair” himself mentally after being so distraught, it helps demonstrate and foreshadow the fact that he is a very emotional person throughout the entire book. Overall, by Allende portraying Esteban as a character that is very hard-working and admirable through using these words, her aim is for the

The geography of the town of Guadelupe from the book Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya is immensely symbolic. After Lupito was murdered at the river, Antonio becomes “afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river” (15). The water conveys the impurity of the town it surrounds and at the same time, it symbolizes the cleansing of nefarious acts and thoughts of the town’s people. The river also illustrates how life continues to flow no matter the case. However, Antonio comprehends that the town’s detrimental avocations will soon reach his family when he reveals to himself that “the innocence which our isolation sheltered could not last forever” (20). Their isolation restrains the corrupt ways of the city and its people.

A theme in the story was that the grass on the other side isn't always greener, which is a metaphorical way of saying that what you think is best is not always better for you. The theme is first portrayed in the beginning of the story when the character called Papa says “ Once we cross the la frontera, we’ll make a good living in California. ” This statement revealed how Papa perceived California to be this really wonderful place, where every individual made a good living, despite the situation they were in. The author also uses figurative language to express the lust Papa had for the life in California when the narrator of the story says “ I did not know exactly what California was either, but Papa’s eyes always sparkled when he talked about it with Mama and his friends.” As it is shown, the author uses the word sparkles to describe Papa’s eyes, while talks about California. This is done to show Papa’s lust and desire to move to California, as he believed that life was better over there. The author also uses imagery, when the main character’s brother, Roberto says “People there sweep money off the streets.” The author uses imagery in a sense, so readers can imagine how the family thinks of California, and how it is place everybody should desire for a luxurious life. Later on in the story after the family had moved to California, the family finds out that they cannot

Espada uses different types of literary techniques to help portray his fears of Puerto Rico’s fall into the hands of American culture/influences. In the poem, Espada uses setting as a major literary technique to help get the point through. He would use it in such a way to compare and contrast his hometown of Brooklyn with Puerto Rico. “On his first visit to Puerto Rico, Island of family folklore. (1-2)” This line sets that the poem will be talking about his experience on his first trip he had in Puerto Rico. Also, he includes a couple lines about Brooklyn in the first and second stanza, to show that he is comparing his time in Puerto Rico with his life style in Brooklyn (NY). The inclusion of setting, it helped the reader understand where he was from and what his family’s ethnic background was. Which helped push the feeling of culture loss, showing you the ways of America and showing you Puerto Rico’s ideals as well, and you can see that they are very similar. If Espada did not show that there were two settings in the poem you may think that they were in the same place because of the similarities. Showing that Puerto Rico is very

The story is set in Comala, which is introduced by the main character Juan and the voice of his mother using strong imagery: “The road rose and fell. It rises or falls whether you’re coming or going. If you are leaving, it’s uphill; but as you arrive it’s downhill.” (4) The reader is immediately given a sense that Juan is descending to a place that is easy to get to, but very difficult to leave. As Juan enters the area near Comala and takes note of the intense heat,

"If he tried hard, he could still imagine the feel of the wind, cool and soft as it came down from the mountains. The green of the farm was so deep he could almost taste it. He'd helped to plant their small vegetable garden, plunged his fingers into the good, dark earth, and gathered eggs from their chickens. Up the hill from their small stone house were their coca bushes, whose little green leaves they chewed when food ran low, and sold for money for clothes and Diego's school books.” … “Diego and his parents had been riding the trufti to the Saturday market in Arani with other farmers, to sell their vegetables and dried coca leaves.” … “He didn't notice that the police had stopped the minibus until his

Moreover, the author's ability to exhibit a position of her desires as a child and how she could never quite grasp the. The narrator evokes us to, “Still, we take what we can and make the best of it.” (Cisneros 33). In a like manner of the author’s previous notions, the reader’s capacity to understand to an extent of what the storyteller’s going through. Even if they have never encountered a similar circumstances themselves. Consequently, the reader has the means to take pleasure in Esperanza’s maturity as she chooses to gaze at the water in a glass, and instead of choosing whether it is half full or half empty she decides to dwell on the reality that the glass is half way full and empty, which is a similar manner to how she comprehends the world. The narrator, instead of choosing to reside in a plethora of unsatisfactory events that have happened, she decides to go onward on the path in life that leads her to the most happiness by reminiscing about the marvelous things that can