For this week I decided to
read the short story the drowned giant. It is a story about a giant who washes
up on a shore and draws a lot of attention towards it from the people
inhabiting the city near it. The narrator is part of a group of friends who are
doing a report and is fascinated by the giant and his existence. He attends the
beach throughout a period of time and notices the likeness the giant shares
with humanity besides of course the size. Throughout the days he notices the
changes the giants body goes through and the people who come to visit examining
/researching the giant. He feels that even with the giant’s immense size he
still believes he shares similar vulnerabilities, making him feel connected in
some way, as if some kind of re creation of the giant. The idea expressed is
that in the story the narrator felt as though we were some tiny imperfect
copies compared to this giant fascinating being who washed up on shore, and
that whether people wanted to believe it or not he was real.
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