1. Please get someone else’s HDM critical reading. …
Please get someone else’s HDM critical reading. … How well did their methods of critical reading work?
Welcome!

3. Partner Feedback, on back of rubric
1. Name specific things they did well, and explain why you are impressed.
2. Give specific, helpful suggestions for them to do even better.

4. Vocabulary Words of Interest
Reading understanding check: Do you know these definitions?
Partner 1
Partner 2
Virile (p. 1349)
Frivolity (p. 1351)
Destitute (p. 1351)
Promontory (p. 1353)

5. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World--AFTER READING
Fill in these columns:
With your partner fill in the following graphic organizer about Esteban.
The body of a drowned man is found
Effect on the Women?
Effect on the Men?
Effect on the village as a whole by the end?

6. Magical Realism: Goals
1) Students will be able to define and correctly pronounce hyperbole and provide an example.
2) Students will be able to define and identify Magical Realism in a text.
3) Students will be able to list and explain the 5 components of Magical Realism. 4) Students will be able to define mundane. 5) Students will be able to define Social commentary.

7. Hyper-what?
Who thinks they can pronounce HYPERBOLE?

8. Hyper-what? Its actually pronounced [hahy-pur-buh-lee]
Practice with a neighbor

9. Hyperbole
Hyperbole: explicitly exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

10. Hyperboles With a partner come up with three commonly used hyperboles.
_____________

11. “They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor
“They both looked at the fallen body with mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar.”
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

12. Magical Realism What was unrealistic or fantastic about this passage?
What was realistic about this passage?

13. Magical Realism Definition
A genre, where the narrative (story) blends magical elements with reality.
In stories of magical realism the setting/world is realistic and even mundane (boring or unexceptional) but subtle elements of magic or the supernatural are intertwined and ‘normal.’
Often stories are told from the perspective of people who live in our world and experience a different reality from the one we call objective.
Originated in Latin America as literature and Germany as art.

14. Magical Realism Definition
Pat Murphy states, “In science fiction, if everyone is walking around with a talking monkey on his head, you need an explanation for it. In magic realism, everyone acts as if the monkeys have always been there.”
What does this quote tell you that maybe be important to know about magical realism?

15. Common Characteristics of Magical Realism
1. Realistic Elements
Recognizable characters, dialogue, true-to-life setting
2. Magical Elements****
Supernatural or mysterious elements
the "deliberate withholding of information and explanations about the disconcerting fictitious world"
3. Humor and Exaggeration
Hyperboles!!
Also: Irony, Sarcasm, Allegory, etc.

16. Common Characteristics of Magical Realism
4. Distortions of time and identity
Characters may change into other characters, lines between living and dead may be blurred, time may not flow in a linear path

17. 5. Social commentary the act of using rhetorical means to provide the author’s commentary (opinion, analysis, judgment, and explanation) on issues in a society/culture. This is done with the idea of promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and appealing to people's sense of justice through art

18. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (author of the Handsomest Drowned Man)
Considered one of Columbia’s foremost writers
Began his writing career as a journalist and published his first two novels in 1961
He was friends with Fidel Castro and founded the Colombian branch of Castro’s new agency
He was known for writing works that angered his government
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982

19. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Some important info:
Esteban is likely Estevanico, a slave from the 1500s who was the first man born in Africa to set foot in Americas
Prediction: How do you think Estevanico
is viewed in Latin America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer

20. While Reading
1) With a partner find the common elements of magical realism by filling in this chart of the “common elements of magical realism”
Realistic Elements of the story (characters, places, situations, etc)
Seemingly Magical Elements of the Story (descriptions, happenings, etc)
Hyperbole (exaggerations) and Humor
Distortions of Time and Identity
Political or Social Commentary
(Social for this story)

21. What did you find? (through page 1349)
Realistic Elements of the story (characters, places, situations, etc)
Seemingly Magical Elements of the Story (descriptions, happenings, etc)
Hyperbole (exaggerations) and Humor)
Distortions of Time and Identity
Political or Social Commentary
(Social for this story)
The village is very mundane and realistic.
The man is so large that it takes a sail to make cloth pants for him.
The drowned man changes the weather (especially the sea): “the wind had never been so steady nor the sea so restless… they supposed that the change had something to do with the dead man.” (1350)
The village’s men are “most useless creatures on earth” compared to Esteban (1350).

22. After Reading Continued
1) How do you think Estevanico is viewed in Latin America?
2) Why do you think the drowned man affects the villagers as he does? (Refer to your graphic organizer of effects Esteban has on the village.)
3) If the villagers had found out the identity of the drowned man, how might this knowledge have affected their reaction?
4) What things might Esteban symbolize?

23. What did you find?
Realistic Elements of the story (characters, places, situations, etc)
Seemingly Magical Elements of the Story (descriptions, happenings, etc)
Hyperbole (exaggerations) and Humor)
Distortions of Time and Identity
Political or Social Commentary
(Social for this story)
The village is very mundane and realistic.
The people are very ordinary.
The man is so large that it takes a sail to make cloth pants for him.
The drowned man changes the weather (especially the sea): “the wind had never been so steady nor the sea so restless… they supposed that the change had something to do with the dead man.” (1350).
The drowned man kept growing after death
The village’s men are “most useless creatures on earth” compared to Esteban (Marquez, 1350).
The drowned man is everything to everyone– he is the most important person and they all know he is Esteban.
Identity changed from when he washed up on shore to when he was cleaned up.
They give him the best funeral ever once they all pitch in.
By uniting together “all the inhabitants of the village became kinsmen,” over something rather absurd, the villagers work together and improve their collective lives greatly (1352). They build better houses and plant flowers and want to be known as “Esteban’s Village.” (1353).
Allusion to Estevanico

24. The Use of Magic Realism
Marquez incorporates magic in his short story mainly through the handsome dead man. He is abnormally large and is compared to a sperm whale and described as weighing as much as a horse.
Cesar Caviedes describes Marquez's style as the “use of ghostly atmospheres to evoke a strange spirituality and exoticism” (101).
Marquez assigns powers to the dead man; Esteban has the power to affect natural elements such as the wind, the sea, and the sun.

25. The Role of Magic Realism
Marquez brings meaning to the magic, creating logical thinking.
Marquez's use of seemingly real characters like the captain in his dress uniform, with his astrolabe, his pole star, and his row of war medals” (3) enhances the appearance of truth.
Marquez's use of imagery to depict the village creates a whole other world, unknown to the reader, in which anything is likely to occur. The intermingling of magic with reality further enables the reader to believe.