"The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the story of a man who is hopelessly lost at sea but miraculously survives for ten days without food or water and withstands the rough water.

2. A
SHIPWRECKED
SAILOR
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

3. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (born March 6, 1927,
Aracataca, Colombia—died April 17, 2014,
Mexico), Colombian novelist and one of the
greatest writers of the 20th century, who was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982,
mostly for his masterpiece Cien Anos De Soledad
(1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was the
fourth Latin American to be so honoured.

4. CHARACTERS
 LUIS ALEJANDRO VELASCO
 JULIO AMADOR CARABALLO
 EDUARDO CASTILLO
 LUIS RENGIFO
 RAMON HERRERA

6. Shipwreck- the destruction of a ship,
as by sinking.

7. •Abyss – bottomless pit

8. •Bobbing- float up and down
•Crate- box made of wood

9.  Contemplate - look thoughtfully for a long
time
 Choppy - rough
 Predicament - a difficult, unpleasant, or
embarrassing situation.
 Reassuring - making you feel less worried.

10. •Raft

11. •Oar-

12. • Absurd - illogical
• Stupefied - astonish and shock.
• Solitude the state or situation of being
alone.
• Searing - extremely hot or intense.

13. • Gash- a long, deep cut or wound.

14. BRIEF SUMMARY
• The story of ‘A Shipwrecked Sailor’ tells the saga of Luis
Alejandro Velasco, a twenty year old sailor
• He was washed overboard during a storm in the middle of
Caribbean sea.
• All of his shipmates drowned.
• Clinging to a life raft without food and water he survived ten
days without food and water

15. *

16. A ship set its sail from Alabama to Columbia with 5
shipmates Velasco, Caraballo, Castillo, Rengifo and
Herrera.

17. The ship got wrecked in the middle of the sea.

18. The ship plunged into an abyss and disappeared.

19. Velasco saw a life raft….

20. Velasco somehow tried to reach the life raft.

21. Velasco couldn’t save anyone.
All of his shipmates drowned.

22. Velasco was alone in the sea without food
and water.
He sat on the raft waiting to be rescued.

23. He survived on the open sea without food and
water and was rescued after ten days.