"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a great story. This story is about a dead man who washes up on the shore of a small town. One thing that is different about this man is that he is the largest, tallest, and most handsome man the people of the town had ever seen. The rest of the story is mainly the women of the town preparing his body, trying to figure out who the man is, and marveling at his size and appearance.
One thing I enjoyed about this story is how the people of the town care for the mans body so much even though they don't know who he is. This shows the compassion these people have for all people even if they don't know them. That is one thing I enjoyed about this particular story.
Another thing I liked about this story is how the author describes the drowned man. An example of this from the text would be, "As they were doing that they noticed that the vegetation on him came from far away oceans and deep water and that his clothes were in tatters, as if he had sailed through labyrinths of coral." This is another example of why I enjoyed reading this story.
At the end of the story, the women who tended to the man's body became so attached to him that they wept as his body was thrown of the cliff. They loved the look of this man so much, they didn't even tie an anchor to his body so that he could float back to the town if he wanted to.
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