Post your main response and responses to two classmates’ posts, collectively amounting to 400 words minimum due by Thursday — Be sure that your main response answers the prompt thoroughly and that your responses to classmates directly address the ideas discussed in their posts in depth. Please, put as much effort into your replies to classmates as you do your response to the prompt. Your replies are what make this a discussion. Thank you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez once said, “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” How can we relate this idea to “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”? How can we say this story suggests truth is subjective and mythology has the power to transform the world? Explain how these ideas play out in the story.

“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” exemplifies the claim of Gabriel Garcia Marquez that “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember