Week 10: Fiction of Ideas

Drowned Giant explores the ideas of how modern day society would react to a giant human corpse washed ashore. At first, the people of the town where the giant washed up are cautious of getting close to the giant corpse, even expressing disappointment in the size. It isn't until two fishermen begin to climb the giant that the rest of the crowd feels comfortable enough to approach the giant and proceed to climb and explore it as well. The giant's corpse begins to turn into an attraction for the local population, youths climb and play on the face while others explore. As days go by, the giant decomposes, the people begin to grow bored of it and its soon dismantled. It's months later that the giant's body parts are seen through out the town and even accused of being whale parts. I believe the author is criticizing our desensitized nature nowadays, the people were careless in how they treated the giant's body and exploited it to their advantage and such is the case today. We are willing to exploit anybody who isn't us, quite literally climbing on top of them to enjoy ourselves.