It tells the tale of a dead body found on the shore of a small fishing village. (25 points) 199 Questions 1. Perhaps it is not really necessary to know how the story works, only that it does work. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. The desolate and plain village transforms into a livelier, brighter one. The abundance of flowers on the cliff creates such a strong smell that it attracts travellers at sea. The village is described as being “made up of only twenty-odd house that had stone courtyards with no flowers and which were spread about on the end of a desert like a cape” (1). As with Esteban, his appearance led him to be revered as something more than an ordinary man; just as the villagers would strive “to make Esteban’s memory eternal,” legends were passed down for generations, right until the present day, about Estevanico. Esteban is also tied to the ancient Aztec god Quetzalcoatl who arrived from the sea. Alfred Kazin, in a review of Leaf Storm and Other Stories in Critical Essays on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, refers to “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” as one of the author’s “beautiful early stories” in which his vision “expresses itself with perfect charm,” and V.S. Their partiality for the imaginative is apparent even before they are touched by Esteban, in the mother’s fears that”the wind would carry off their children.” Their calm acceptance of the phenomenal, however, is most clearly apparent when they regard Esteban. Kathleen Wilson (Editor), Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories, Volume 1, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Published by Gale, 1997. As the women sit up all night, sewing an outfit for Esteban,”it seemed to them that the wind had never been so steady nor the sea so restless… and they supposed that the change had something to do with the dead man.” Already their lives, fed by the “calm and bountiful” sea, are changing. • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story about a “drowned man” who drifts to a small village and fascinates the villagers, especially the women. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. They secretly compared him to their own men, thinking that for all their lives theirs were At the story’s beginning, the emptiness of the villagers’s lives can be seen in their surroundings. According to Morton P. Levitt in “The Meticulous Modernist Fictions of Garcia Marquez,” Garcia Marquez, who was a journalist, says that his style derives from his grandmother, who “told things that sounded supernatural and fantastic, but she told them with complete naturalness.” Garcia Marquez grew up in a small town that had little to offer except for a sense of the past, according to Levitt: “like so many Latin American towns [it] lived on remembrances, myth, solitude and nostalgia.” Garcia Marquez presents this multiple reality in his stories; one reality is that of the fantastic, but another reality is the author’s (and the reader’s) complete acceptance of the fantastic. He had the smell of the sea about him . Even the dead must be tossed out, over the side of the cliffs. The drowned man: The drowned man, also referred to as Esteban, washes ashore on the beach of a seaside town. Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” is a story of redemption and the quest for renewal in the narrowness of society’s imagination. Imagery aids in observing the changes brought upon the village as a cause of the discover of the handsome man. He is compassionate, recognizing the anxiety that his size causes and possessing the awful knowledge that “the lady of the house looked for her most resistant chair and begged him, frightened to death, sit here.” He feels shame at being such a bother to the villagers; had he known he was going to drown, “he would have looked for a more discreet place.” While others might have turned on him for his unusual characteristics, the villagers not only show him kindness but actually embrace him.