A Single Person Can Change Society
“Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.” Barbara Mikulski said that once, and what she said goes perfectly with the story, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Coming together to make a change is the theme of this story. In the story, the women adored Esteban. Esteban was a magnificent man who drowned. The women wanted to clean him, dress him, and shave him. They changed their village, completely, to accommodate Esteban. In the end, they held a funeral for Esteban. The men and women of the village made a difference in their village by coming together.
First off, the narrator explained that “The women who had dressed him, who had combed his hair, had cut his nails and shaved him were unable to back a shudder of pity…” (33). The women of Esteban’s village loved Esteban so much. They went out of their way to dress him and bathe him even though he was dead. They praised him as if he was a god among men. The narrator said, “The tallest men’s holiday pants would not fit him, nor the fattest ones’ Sunday shirts, nor the shoes of the one with the biggest feet. Fascinated by his huge size and his beauty, the women then decided to …show more content…
The narrator told the read that, “They could see him in life, condemned to going through doors sideways, cracking his head on crossbeams…” (33.) They knew how troubling it had to be to be him, bumping his head on things. They then decided to make sure “that their houses would have wider doors, higher ceilings, and stringer floors so that Esteban’s memory could go everywhere without bumping into beams and so that no one in the future would dare whisper the big boob finally died” (35). The people restructured every building in their village to be taller. After doing that, they repainted the buildings gray to make his memory eternal. They changed their village so that his memory cannot be troubled by his enormous
“Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.” Barbara Mikulski said that once, and what she said goes perfectly with the story, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Coming together to make a change is the theme of this story. In the story, the women adored Esteban. Esteban was a magnificent man who drowned. The women wanted to clean him, dress him, and shave him. They changed their village, completely, to accommodate Esteban. In the end, they held a funeral for Esteban. The men and women of the village made a difference in their village by coming together.
First off, the narrator explained that “The women who had dressed him, who had combed his hair, had cut his nails and shaved him were unable to back a shudder of pity…” (33). The women of Esteban’s village loved Esteban so much. They went out of their way to dress him and bathe him even though he was dead. They praised him as if he was a god among men. The narrator said, “The tallest men’s holiday pants would not fit him, nor the fattest ones’ Sunday shirts, nor the shoes of the one with the biggest feet. Fascinated by his huge size and his beauty, the women then decided to …show more content…
The narrator told the read that, “They could see him in life, condemned to going through doors sideways, cracking his head on crossbeams…” (33.) They knew how troubling it had to be to be him, bumping his head on things. They then decided to make sure “that their houses would have wider doors, higher ceilings, and stringer floors so that Esteban’s memory could go everywhere without bumping into beams and so that no one in the future would dare whisper the big boob finally died” (35). The people restructured every building in their village to be taller. After doing that, they repainted the buildings gray to make his memory eternal. They changed their village so that his memory cannot be troubled by his enormous