1. THE HANDSOMEST DROWNED MAN IN THE
WORLD
&
GOD SEES THE TRUTH BUT WAITS
Prepared by: Ancel Riego de Dios

3. • Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia is a unitary
constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments.
The country is located in northwestern South America,
bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the north by
theCaribbean Sea; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to
the south by Ecuador andPeru; and to the west by
the Pacific Ocean. Colombia is the 26th largest country by
area and the fourth largest in South America after
Brazil, Argentina and Peru. With over 46 million people,
Colombia is the 27th largest country in the world by
population and has the second largest population of any
Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico.
Colombia is a middle power, and is now the fourth largest
economy in Latin America, and the third largest in South
America. Colombia produces coffee, flowers, emeralds,
coal, and oil. These products comprise the primary sector
of the economy. The world's third biggest bank HSBC has
created a perspective on the economic outlook in 2050
where Colombia is seen playing a decisive role in the global
economy, especially in the Americas as the number 25 in
the world economies measured by GDP.

4. • Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez born March 6,
1927) is a Colombian novelist, short-
story writer, screenwriterand journalist, known affectionately
as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most
significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the
1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel
Prize in Literature, and is the earliest remaining living recipient.1 He
pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law
school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no
inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In
1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two
sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
• He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-
fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels,
such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time
of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical
acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for
popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses
magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic
situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village
called Macondo (the town mainly inspired by his
birthplace Aracataca), and most of them express the theme of
solitude.

5. One Sunday morning, the village children find a seaweed covered body on the
beach. They play with it until the adults discover the corpse and decide that it
must be given a small funeral and thrown off the cliff which their village rests, into
the sea as they do with all dead bodies. In order to do so, however, they must
clean the corpse before it can be given final rest. The village men carry the body
up to the village so that the village wives can prepare it for the funeral, then go to
neighboring villages to ask if the man was from there. Upon removing the sea
plants from his face, they discover his handsome face. The women of the village
become attached to him and dream of the wonderful villager he could have been.
Eventually, they name the man Esteban, to give him some sort of identity. At once
they realize his physical qualities and translate how his personality must have
been. The women believe that he could perform in one night what their husbands
could not in the course of their lives. This leads to a postmortem development of
his character. The stranger’s body is quite tall, and his face is humble with a firm
jaw. Thinking of how he must have had to stoop to enter doorways and how he
must have felt uncomfortable in small chairs makes the women feel pity and
sympathy for the man who had not uttered a word. They dress him in a hand-sewn
suit of bridal linen and attach little ‘relics’ for his safety. This includes holy water
jars and nails. Annoyed at the elaborate measures their wives are taking, the men
of the village come to take the body. Nevertheless, they too see his face and are
awed by the character they see in him. Soon the entire town begins making
excessive funeral arrangements and one of the village families is chosen to pose as
his relatives and grieving widow. No sooner had the villagers thrust his body from
the cliff do they realize that one day he may come again. In celebration of the new
life they had discovered, the village men irrigated their bleak and barren land to
produce flowers, and the houses were painted in bright colors to identify Esteban’s
Village and give him a home to which he could return. One day, he returned, and
all of the people were happy once again.

6. • Russia also officially known as the Russian Federation is a
country in northern Eurasia.It is a federal semi-presidential
republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to
southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad
Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime
borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the U.S.
state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. At 17,075,400
square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest
country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the
Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the world's ninth
most populous nation with 143 million people as of 2012.
Extending across the whole of northern Asia, Russia spans
nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of
environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest
reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest
producer of oil and natural gas globally. Russia has the
world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain
approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.

7. • Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ); known in the Anglosphere as Leo
Tolstoy; September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910)[1] was
a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later
in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for
his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme
moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis
and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became
noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
• His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering
on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a
fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on
nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of
God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal
twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr.

8. • Once there lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitri
Aksenov with his family in the land of Vladimir, who in his
younger days lived life to the fullest by experiencing all the
material things world has to offer. Until he got married.
•
• One summer, he planned to go to Nizhny fair but his wife
warned him that she had a bad dream of her husband-- she
dreamt about Ivan that he returned from the town with
hair of grey. Ivan laughed as if he doesn't care and went on
the fair.
•
• He travelled half way and met a merchant, whom he spent
the night drinking tea with and shared an adjoining room in
the inn. Since Aksenov is not used of sleeping for long
hours he decided to wake up and continued his journey.
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•

9. • Along the way of his journey, two soldiers in a troika
stopped him, and began asking questions, for the merchant
he met halfway on his travel was found dead. Since all
evidences of the crime are pointing Aksenov guilty he was
imprisoned.
•
• Learning the sad fate of Aksenov, his wife remembered her
dream about Aksenov and was worried and even
considered the thought of her husband being guilty. The
thought made Aksenov even sadder.
•
• 26 years in prison made Aksenov a well grounded and God-
fearing man. In spite the fact that his family has completely
forgotten him, he still serves as a “Grandpa” to the other
prisoners. Then came a new prisoner named Makar
Semyonich.

10. • After months of knowing each other, Aksenov discovered
that Makar is the one who killed the merchant whom he
was told he murdered. He was furious with what he found
out but didn't speak or uttered a word about it.
•
• Until one night, Aksenov heard some earth rolling under
where the prisoners were sleeping. He went out and saw
Makar. Makar told him not to tell a word about what he
had witnessed or else he will kill him.
•
• When they were led out to work, a soldier noticed a
prisoner took of some earth off his boots. The soldier
searched for escaping plans and found the tunnel. Then,
they asked each of them who knew about this but they
denied for they knew they will be killed before the one who
did it as Makar warned them. Finally, the governor asked
Ivan for he knew he was a just man. But then Ivan said it
wasn't his right or his will but God's to tell such name.
•

11. • Night fell and Makar went to Ivan. He thanked him and
felt sorry for what he had done to him a long time ago
that made Ivan suffer for all this years. He sobbed as
well as Ivan and said that the Lord will forgive you.
Makar said that he will confess to the governor so that
Ivan would be sent free--back to his home.
•
• Ivan did not want to go out of prison for he has no
family neither home to back to; rather, he waited for
his last hour to come.
•
• In spite of what they've talked about, Makar
Semyonich confessed his guilt. But when the order for
Ivan Dmitri Aksenov's release came, he was already
dead.