Prefection of a man and the Imprefections of society..

     The first time I read "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", I read it too fast and when it came down to the end where I had to write about the story I had NO Idea  on what to write about. I had just read the words and not what was beyond them. The second time through  I really enjoyed it so much more. It told me that the people in the village where kind and loving. They show this because, they work together to make him happy. They really believed that when he was growing up  he wasn't treated right because of his size.. ! Okay BUT BACK TO THE STORY..
    The story doesn't simply contain symbolism it is completely made up of symbolism, everything in the story is a symbol, from Esteban  to the children who finds him dead on the beach, to the women and there men.  Esteban is a symbol of both the perfection of a man and the imperfection's of society. He is the perfect human begin. He is huge and handsome, but he also looks like he wouldn't be able to make any terrain into fertile land. He is envisioned to have command of  nature from his presence alone. He symbolizes bad things in society also because when the women envision him in his old home, they see him being disliked for his immense size. However, the people who find his body realize how much of a blessing he really is and they decide to devote their live to making themselves and their village worthy of him. They want to show that he was cared about and not judge on how he look.. THEY REALLY CARED ABOUT THIS STRANGER?? 
      Like to me um... i don't know this man, he's dead on the beach why would you run and tell your parents?What I would have done was called the police and let them do there job. But that's how we today are different from the story. The people want to make themselves worthy of Esteban.They rebuilt there homes, painted them happy gay colors, and planted flowers. In the society we live in today everyone is SELFISH..They only think about themselves and don't care about no one Elsa or there feelings. But to me in this story it showed me that we need to cared for each other and stop looking down on people and start helping them..So after I read this story I asked myself what if that was me that needed the  help, that everyone was talking about. I wonder how that would make me feel?