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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Open Boat Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here are a few quotes that relate to the struggles between man and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here are a few quotes that relate to the struggles between man and nature:
"Think we'll make it, Captain?"  "If this wind holds and the boat don't swamp, we can't do much else," said the captain. (194)
"Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation." (189)
"The particular...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:28:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[IN the open boat,  each character's main quotes/significance relating...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IN the open boat,  each character's main quotes/significance relating to Man vs. Nature?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:59:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is the correspondent the  initiate in the story?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/why-correspondent-initiate-story-79463</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is the correspondent the  initiate in the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:44:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["The Open Boat" is a work of naturalism, which basically seeks to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["The Open Boat" is a work of naturalism, which basically seeks to represent the ultimate futility of man's existence. Here are the central aspects of Naturalism:
·         Man is a helpless object, rather than a god or even just a man
·         Man is subject to forces greater than themselves, be it government or nature (Darwin)
·         Man is subject to dark forces and internal drives (Freud)
·        ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:50:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Open Boat", what do the boat, the sea, the shark, and the waves...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/open-boat-by-crane-what-do-boat-sea-shark-waves-73315</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "The Open Boat", what do the boat, the sea, the shark, and the waves symbolize?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:40:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does "open boat" symbolize  in relation to the major tenets or...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/what-does-open-boat-symbolize-relation-major-73015</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does "open boat" symbolize  in relation to the major tenets or characteristics of literary naturalism?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:37:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One of the basic themes of this and other works by Crane is that the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/first-par-section-vi-speaks-about-mad-gods-scared-72623</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One of the basic themes of this and other works by Crane is that the lack of control that man seems to be able to exert over his own life. The men in the small boat have been desperately fighting for their lives during the entire story. They have just made it to a place where they can actually see the shore and, at first, believe people will come to rescue them. But the lighthouse is not stocked has no one there to rescue them. The men then...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:39:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The first paragraph of Stephen Crane's story "The Open Boat" quickly...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/what-meaning-1st-par-cranss-story-related-literary-72621</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The first paragraph of Stephen Crane's story "The Open Boat" quickly establishes some of the main principles of literary naturalism.  Novelists of the naturalist movement create ordinary characters and place them in extraordinary situations.  It is clearly evident in the opening paragraph that the men in the story are in a situation which is anything but ordinary, surrounded as they are by huge, foaming waves "that (seem) thrust up in points...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:37:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where in the short story shows that the correspondent is the initiate.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/where-short-story-shows-that-correspondent-72653</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Where in the short story shows that the correspondent is the initiate.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:33:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the first para of section VI it speaks about "mad gods" and "scared...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the first para of section VI it speaks about "mad gods" and "scared cheese" How does this illustrate basic themes and central ideas?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:54:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaning of the first paragraph of "The Open Boat" as it...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/what-meaning-1st-par-cranss-story-related-literary-72621</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaning of the first paragraph of "The Open Boat" as it relates to literary naturalism?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:41:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The correspondent in Crane's "The Open Boat" is the initiate who is, in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/open-boat-who-initiate-does-he-have-epiphany-71869</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The correspondent in Crane's "The Open Boat" is the initiate who is, in a small boat for the first time, rowing with others as they struggle to reach a shore and save themselves from drowning.  This man's ephiphany is reached when it occurs to him that

...nature does not regard him as important, and...she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him.

As he ponders the indifference of Nature, the correspondent suddenly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:09:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Open Boat" who is the initiate and does he have an epiphany?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/open-boat-who-initiate-does-he-have-epiphany-71869</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "The Open Boat" who is the initiate and does he have an epiphany?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:05:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The dingy is described as small and cramped, filled with four men who...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The dingy is described as small and cramped, filled with four men who are desperately trying to get to short. The details about the dingy help to emphasize the physical danger and discomfort of the men. Crane says:


"Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea."


Since the boat was so small, even small waves posed a danger to the men of swamping the boat. Crane says


"each froth-top was a problem in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:44:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stephen Crane mentions several details about the dingy. What is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Stephen Crane mentions several details about the dingy. What is the significance of these details?
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:18:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The central theme of Naturalist style is that man is at the mercy of his...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/what-quotes-show-naturalist-theme-open-boat-69305</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The central theme of Naturalist style is that man is at the mercy of his environment.  This theme is evident in several quotes depicting the men in the vulnerable open boat being buffeted by the sea, the inexhorable force of nature.
In the opening paragraphs of the story, the injured captain thinks about the ineffectiveness of the actions of "even the bravest and most enduring" in general terms when he recalls man's utter helplessness...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:10:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What quotes show a Naturalist theme in "The Open Boat"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/what-quotes-show-naturalist-theme-open-boat-69305</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What quotes show a Naturalist theme in "The Open Boat"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:42:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The dilemmas faced by the men on the boat all have to do with Crane's...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/why-does-crane-deliberately-place-men-sight-land-68323</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The dilemmas faced by the men on the boat all have to do with Crane's firm belief in fate. He illustrates the conflict between Man and Nature in the presence of the stormy, rough seas. The men are placed within eyeshot of the land to create suspense and conflict, among other things.
The serenity of the land represents promise; that is, the promise that, if the men were able to reach it, they could achieve a sense of peace. What's more, Crane...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 03:21:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Crane deliberately place the men in sight of land in the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Crane deliberately place the men in sight of land in the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:28:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The men in the boat are very frustrated by the knowledge that after...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/open-boat/q-and-a/what-does-open-boat-suggest-about-perceptions-67915</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The men in the boat are very frustrated by the knowledge that after fighting so hard for their lives, and getting so close to shore, they could still die. This seems extremely unfair to them.
Crane writes,

"If I am going to be drowned---if I am going to be drowned---if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate the sand and trees?"

Of course, that is the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:24:03 PST</pubDate>
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