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Saritha.SB.Ed English OptionalReg.No:16514300011GCTE, Thycaud

A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZColumbian Novelist, Short story writer, screen writer and JournalistKnown as ‘Gabo’.Nobel Prize Winner (1982)Works

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ (1967)‘The Autumn of Patriarch’ (1975)‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ (1985)

Plunge

Crate

Choppy Waves

Cargo

Raft

Who is the central character of the novella?

Answer: Luis Alegendro Velasco

What was the first thought of Velasco?

Answer: His first thought was he is alone in the sea.

What were the evidences of a shipwreck?

Answer: The wind produced the choppy waves and the cargo scattered across the surface of the sea.

1. What happened to the narrator?

2. What appeared reassuring to the narrator?

Answer:1. The narrator was in the middle of the ocean after a shipwreck. The ship plunged into the abyss and disappointed.2. Other sailors were also having the same predicament as the narrator. It was reassuring to him.

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