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ymd290
ymd290
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IN the open boat,  each character's main quotes/significance relating to Man vs. Nature?

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Posted by ymd290 on Wednesday April 29, 2009 at 9:59 AM and tagged with characters quotes, the open boat.

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  1. anewby1 Student
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    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 violence of the sea had ceased.  The waves came without snaling.  The obligatioin of the man at the oars was to keep the boat headed so that the tilt of the rollers would not capsize her, and to preserve her from filling when the crests ruched past.  The black waves were silent and hard to be seen in the darkness.  Often one was almost upon the boat before the oarsman was aware." (204)

    "The correspondent remained in the grip of this stronge new enemy-a current." (213)

    Crane, Stephen.  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction.  Bantam Classics: New York, 2006.

     

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    Posted by anewby1 on Wednesday April 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM