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Compare and Contrast Essay

Have you ever read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Gabriel writes short stories. Two very good ones that Gabriel have written are “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. They are two very interesting stories that compare and contrast each other in multiple different ways.

The story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” is a very interesting one. It is about a man who’s dead body washes up onto shore and the townspeople find it and they treat the dead body like it was family and then they send the dead body out onto sea. The towns people in the story name the dead man Esteban. In the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" they do not name the old man. In “The

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