Luis Alejandro Velasco was a sailor aboard a Colombian destroyer that was caught in heavy waves, causing eight crew members to be washed overboard. Velasco managed to find a raft and spent ten days adrift at sea without food before washing ashore on an unknown coast, later discovered to be Colombia. He was initially greeted with affection but later received military honors and money from publicity agencies for surviving his ordeal alone at sea on the raft. The story is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first major work and tells of Velasco's experience of being shipwrecked and drifting for ten days before making it to shore.

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2. UNIT II
A SHIP WRECKED SAILOR

4. GABRIEL GRACIA MARQUEZ

5. Gabriel Gracia Marquiz [1928 – 2014 ]
• He was a Colombian novelist, short story writer ,screen
writer and novelist
• He was called affectionately called ‘Gabo’
• He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
• Marquez’s first major work isThe Story of a
Shipwrecked sailor.

6. Seaman Luis Alejandro Velasco of the destroyer Caldas is
eager to return to Colombia after a long stay in the United States.
When the ship sets sail ,however it is over loaded – in part with
contraband. When the vessel is caught in heavy waves in the
Caribbean , eight of the crew are washed overboard, together with
much of the cargo. After four days the search ends, with the
missing declared dead. However Velasco found a raft and
remained in the open sea without food and hope. After drifting
with sea currents for ten days, he arrives with his raft on a cost
that he later discovers to be Colombia. He is received first with
affection and later with military honours and much money from
publicity agencies...
The Story

7. Main Characters
•CASTILLO
•CARABALLO
•LUIS RENGIFO
•VELASCO

8. GLOSSARY

9. •Miserable - very
unhappy

10. • Despair - Complete loss or absence of hope

11. • Savage - barbarous ; cruel

12. Abyss - bottomless gulf

13. Contemplate - think seriously

14. Afloat - floating in water or air

15. Reassuring - to free from fear

16. Predicament - unfortunate position

17. Raft - a float of logs , planks

18. Crest - top of a mountain

19. Freeze - become ice , be chilled by
fear

20. Yell - make sharp loud cry

21. Amid - among , in the midst of

22. Oars - a light bladed pole to proper
boat

23. Crate - large basket

24. Desolate - depopulate , make
wrecked

25. Gigantic – very large

26. Vanished - disappear

27. Whaler – a large , strong person

28. Disaster – An unexpected natural or
manmade damage

29. Gash – deep open cut in flesh

30. Inventory – Catalogue of goods ;
register

31. Solitude - loneliness

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