Shemar Stewart
1. The Handsomest drowned man in the world- is a Magical Realism
2. Magical Realism is a genre of fiction in which magical elements join to create a realistic
atmosphere that accesses a deeper understanding of reality.
3. The Author of the story the Handsomest drowned man in the world is Gabriel Garcia
Marquez and he was born in 1927 in Aracataca Colombia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez ia
associated with the magical realism genre of narrative fiction and was accredited for
reinvigorating Latin American writing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel prize for
literature in 1982 for a body of work that included ¨Love in time of Cholera. ¨
4. Summary
The story of the handsomest drowned man in the world started on a regular Wednesday in a
village made up of wooden buildings. A group of children playing discovered floating debris
along with the body of a dead man on the shore. The children then began to bury the dead man in
the sand and dig him up back, but shortly after, the villagers noticed and raised an alarm in the
entire village. The dead man's body was filled with sea corps, including jellyfish tentacles. Men
from the village carried the dead man's body to a nearby house in the village, and they noticed
that the man's body was hefty and insanely tall. They then speculated that this irregularity in
shape and height was because the dead man's body absorbed much water, causing it to grow
taller in death. It was immediately apparent that the dead man was a stranger, as the villagers
were tiny. The men from the village then traveled to neighboring villages to check for a missing
man while the village women stood behind and monitored the dead man's body. The village
women removed the sea corps and noticed the dead man's body was incredibly handsome. The
women all agreed that he was the most virile dead man they had ever seen. The dead man was so
big that no clothes from the village could not fit him, so the village women started to make
clothes for him. The village women then started fantasizing about the dead man's life and
personality, imagining how awesome he was and how well-built his house must have been. The
village women even imagined the dead man planting flowers and cliffs and compared him with
their own man imagining the dead man as someone more capable than the tiny men in their
village. The village women then stopped fantasizing when the most elderly women commented
that the man had the face of someone named Esteban. Most of the village women initially
disagreed, but eventually, all of them agreed. The village women then started to feel pity for the
dead man as they thought his varying body size and shape must have caused him to live an
uncomfortable life as it still bothered him in death. The village women imagined the dead man
awkwardly going into tiny houses and people laughing when he left. The Village women then
cried for the dead man and placed a handkerchief over his face.
The village men returned with the great news that the drowned man did not belong to any
neighboring village. The village women reacted with great relief that the man was not their own.
However, the village men were exhausted from their travels and wanted to dispose of the body
immediately. The village men then constructed a makeshift platform to tie an anchor, but the
village women delayed the dead man's burial as they were busy decorating the dead man's body.
The tired village men then became distrustful of the village women and their attachment to the
dead man's body and began to grumble. The village women then realized that the men were
suspicious of them, so they removed the handkerchief from the dead man's face, and the village
men became stunned by the drowned man's attractive features.
The villagers then held a decorated funeral for the dead man, as the village women got so many
flowers that it was hard to walk around. The villagers then appointed a family for the dead man
so that all the villages would be his kin. While the villagers carried the dead man to his burial,
they realized for the first time that their village was isolated. The villagers then promised to paint
their walls in bright colors and make their houses with wider doors and taller ceilings to honor
the drowned man's memory.
5. I have many people whom I secretly admire and look up to every day. This admiration is
beneficial as it makes me constantly want to be better or to do better than the person in
every aspect. For example, I have a friend by the name of Ashanique more, Ashanique is
currently enrolled at Benedict College and pursuing a Computer Science undergraduate
degree. After recognizing all her successes and accomplishments, I became obsessed with
getting to know her. She educated me about what her goals are in life, how she works
harder than everyone, and how she continuously beats all odds. Ashanique even told me
about how she nearly failed school after getting pregnant at 18. From listening to her after
seeing how successful she is in life now, compared to where she is coming from, I am
profoundly motivated, and it makes me want to work twice as hard as her, to become
more successful than her, and to get more scholarships than her. I am so obsessed with
improving myself and creating becoming better than Ashanique that my curiosity about
her led us to become best friends. Whenever I do something, she has to approve it before
anybody else. Ashanique profoundly inspires me. Secondly, I am motivated by Michael
Lee Chin. Michael Lee-Chin is a Jamaican-born billionaire born in a single-parent family
and started off in poverty. As a young man, he worked as a Hotel Landscaper but became
a multi-billionaire. Having worked at the same hotel where Michael Lee-Chin worked as
a teenager, I admire his footsteps, and this made me even more interested in becoming
like him, so I followed my dream to attend University. After I graduate from University
with honors, I plan to become an investor and business magnet like Michael Lee chin.
Today, Michael Lee chin is one of Jamaica's richest self-made billionaires. Michael LeeChin has a lot of properties, including a multimillion-dollar yacht and hotels. I am
impressed by his achievements, and I am inspired to be like him. As a result, I am
investing all of my time and effort in University to pursue my dreams and become as
successful as Michael Lee-Chin. Similarly, to the story, The Handsomest dead man, the
dead man had a lot of better features than the village men, making the village women
fantasize about the dead man. Even though the man is dead, his attractive features make
the villagers admire him and the wanted. So, the story is a masterpiece as the author
created fiction and mixed this fiction with reality by making the dead man so attractive
that the people in the village admired him.