The genre of "The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in The World", is magical realism. I have not read much magical realism, and it looks like I will not be reading any more magical realism. The story ,to me, was very hard to understand, I could not follow what was happening in the story. Like when the dead guy washed up on shore, why would the kids start playing with a dead person. What you think will happen does not happen. Like normal kids would not play with a dead body, a normal kid would run and tell their parents or tell the police, not play with the dead body!
Another thing that threw me where all the analogy's, such as when the women are putting his shirt on they say "that the strength of his heart broke the buttons on his shirt" A dead persons heart does not beat so how does his heart pop the buttons off his shirt. This makes absolutely no sense because the heart of a dead person does not beat or have any kind of force. Also some how they mistaken a man for a whale. I have personally seen a whale and a whale looks nothing like a human or vise versa. Another thing is that there is no telling how long this man has been floating in the ocean. He should already be decomposing and smelling really bad. If I was a woman just the smell of rotting flesh would make me stay away from any thing no matter how handsome or beautiful the person or thing is.
What is the point in magical realism? Why is it so confusing and hard to understand? I personally do not like magical realism because of all the confusion between what is happening in the story and what the characters are doing. To me magical realism is just a bunch of weird words jumbled up in book format and then published to make money.
I agree. The story was very hard to understand and its weird that the kids played with the dead body. Good Job!
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