The handsomest drowned man in the world

Myths help people thinking bigger and create in them a sentiment that everyone can do something when you really trust in it. Myths inspire people to make a change in the world. The handsomest drowned man in the world is a short story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There is the plot of the story: a corpse emerges from the sea on a beach of a small village. Children have found it and play with it until adults discover the corpse and decided that a funeral should be given to this dead man. While cleaning his face, the women of the village discover how beautiful he is. They suddenly fell in love and admiration for this strong, tall and virile man that they decided to called Esteban. Soon, the entire entire town begins making a gigantic funeral and painting all the houses in bright colors to identify Esteban's village. Also, they give him a home to which he could go if he ever one day come back from the depths of the sea. The drowned man symbolizes all the beauty of life that the village has always dreamed of. In other worlds, the myth of the handsomest drowned man in the world helped the village to build his nation.


In this text, there are a lot of literary devices and they help a lot the reader to understand more the purpose of the story. There is climax in the story such as: ¨Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile, and best built man they had ever seen...¨. Climaxes are good literary devices because they helped the reader to understand more the importance and the attention that the author put to an idea. Also, there is hyperbole in the text, which is a good literary to use when you want to exaggerate something. Also, there is simile such as: ¨as if he had sailed through labyrinths of coral¨and there is personification: ¨it seemed to them that the wind had never been so steady nor the sea so restless as on that night. ¨


¨He has the face of someone called Esteban.¨ This quote is an allusion to the Bible which there is also an Esteban. The Esteban of the Bible had seen God. This allusion proves that the drowned man is so beautiful that it's like he had seen the face of God.


To conclude, I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez succeeded in proving that a myth can help building a nation. The myth of this man inspired an entire village, it change the way they thought.