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Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

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“Keep love in your hearts. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”-Oscar Wilde. Wilde acknowledges that without love a heart is a garden with dry flowers. Whereas, if love is present a garden is full of blooming flowers. Love is a powerful connection between individuals or objects that contain a deeper meaning. In “Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher” Solari expresses the love between money and poetry. However, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” portrays love between two unique individuals. In the short stories, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” and “Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher” both Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Maria Teresa Solari embody love as a metaphor by highlighting the positive …show more content…

In fact, Marquez exemplifies, “Thanks to God,” they sighed: he’s ours.” (Marquez 3). In other words, after the men returned with the news that Esteban was not missing from the nearby villages, the women were delighted to hear the wonderful news. Women form relationships with Esteban and treat him like a close family member. Also, Marquez highlights, “The women then decided to make him pants with a piece of gaff sail, and a shirt of fine linen so that he could continue his death with dignity.” (Marquez 2). In addition, women express love and affection to Esteban by sewing clothes for his death. The villagers grew fond of Esteban, even though they had different physical appearances.. In fact, Marquez asserts, “Where the sunshine such that the sunflowers don’t know where to turn, yes, there is the village of the Esteban.” (Marquez 4). The villagers release Esteban back into the water without an anchor, so that he could come back if he wished. As a matter of fact, they name the village after Esteban. Esteban brought hope, happiness and love into the village. Moreover, authors have different stylistic choices of revealing the power of love in their

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