The Drowned Giant by J. G. Ballard, is a story about a body of a giant being washed ashore, and how for the narrator this opened up a new world for him. While everyone else was busy crawling on the giant, and not respecting it. The narrator was captivated by it. The narrator describes the changes of the corpse, and how he imagined him to be when he was alive. He unlike everyone else imagines the giant having a personality, and sees him as a human like figure.
All the other humans disfigure him, burn a whole in his chest, harvest his bones and parts to be used all over town. Dehumanizing him, knowing him as a "sea beast" not as a human figure at all. The narrator sees this all happening and just goes along with it. Seeing how people can mistake the parts as whale, and how some parts were used for entertainment in shows and museums.
I belive this story is a reflection of man kind. How the narrator watches these people dismember a being he sees as human like, without batting an eye, or relate themselves to him.
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