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The Open Boat
The story is told mainly through the point of view of the correspondent, who is presumably writing about the experience after the event. What he and the other three men fear is mainly the...
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The Open Boat
In Crane's short story "The Open Boat," four men are lost at sea in a small boat. At first it seems that none of them will survive, but as the story goes on, the men spy land and have hope that...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane tells the story of "The Open Boat" as fiction rather than nonfiction for several reasons. By writing the story as fiction, Crane is able to spend a great deal of time on descriptive...
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, is a fictionalization of a real occurrence in his life. Its portrayal of the sinking of a steamship and the survival of four men is overflowing with the emotions...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" begins with the following passage: None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These...
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The Open Boat
The effect of the scene where the men wave from the beach in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" is contradictory. Four men are stranded in a small lifeboat on the rough seas, and they are looking for...
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The Open Boat
One of the ways the author illustrates the daunting task ahead of the men is to make the ocean like a character. Each wave is a "menace." As each salty wall of water approached, it shut all else...
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The Open Boat
There are four characters in Stephen Crane’s story “The Open Boat.” There is a cook, an oiler, a correspondent, and a captain—all stranded in a small boat in the middle of the sea. The...
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The Open Boat
I don't think that there is a moment in which all readers all of a sudden realize that the narrative point of view is limited to the things seen and heard by the four men in the boat. Readers...
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The Open Boat
In Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," four men are on a tiny boat in the middle of the open sea. Their chances of survival are slim, but by the end of the story, three of the men survive. The oiler,...
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The Open Boat
The only internal thoughts that are presented come from the correspondent. His shifting perspective in the understanding of his own morality comes from the traumatic experience of facing the...
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The Open Boat
At the end of Section II, the men spot the lighthouse on Mosquito Inlet. In Section III, they continue to make progress, albeit very slowly. The captain mentions that he can see a house on the...
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" is an excellent example of Naturalism. Naturalist literature illustrates the ways that humans are influenced and determined by elements of nature (internal and external) and...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane in The Open Boat reveals, not only the fight for survival of those now lost at sea in the boat, but of man's constant struggle against the elements. The struggle to survive is...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane is a renowned Naturalist writer. As a Naturalist, Crane illuminates the idea that nature is far more powerful than mankind and that man lacks free will based upon the concept that...
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The Open Boat
There are many instances where the sea is personified, where it is described in human or animalistic terms. These uses of figures of speech give the sea (and nature in general) character, almost...
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The Open Boat
In a slice-of-lie story of four men in a life boat after a shipwreck, Stephen Crane writes a detached chronicle of their efforts to survive against an indifferent universe in this extraordinary...
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Stephen Crane
A man declares to the universe that he exists in order to be recognized, in order to feel that his existence is recognized, that he has meaning and purpose in the grand scheme of things. It is not...
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The Open Boat
The "veneer of civilisation" is threatened by the "brute within" through the realisation that man is actually rather insignificant when it comes to the powers of nature, and nothing about him--his...
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" is a statement of Crane's belief in naturalism, or a philosophical viewpoint that regards nature as being far more powerful than man. In fact, Crane shows in this story that man, in...
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The Open Boat
In "The Open Boat," the characters struggle to understand nature, their place in it, and the meanings of life and death—with the possibility of death looming. The first line states this premise....
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The Open Boat
The oiler is the strongest and therefore the most likely one to survive the ordeal. Ironically, he is the only one who dies. This underscores the futility of his struggle against the indifferent...
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The Open Boat
Herman Melville once remarked that he learned all he knew of life from the sea. Indeed, the sea seems a world of its own in "The Open Boat." In this naturalistic short story, Crane's opening...
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" begins with "None of them knew the color of the sky." The story ends with ". . . they could then be interpreters." That is, the men in the boat could then interpret nature, "the...
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The Open Boat
In "The Open Boat," the point of view shifts to the perspective of each man and to an objective, third person narrator. We get the most insight from the correspondent, probably because he is the...
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The Open Boat
The men can see the lighthouse and the alleged "house of refuge" by this point. However, they see no signs of life and the cook says, "Funny they don't see us!" He says he wonders why they don't...
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The Open Boat
As a naturalist, Crane was keen to stress the way that men were powerless in the face of the might of nature. As a result, God or any gods are not mentioned in this short story. Such a focus on...
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The Open Boat
Both of these novels show human beings to be without free will and unable to shape their destiny, though this is presented in different ways. In "The Open Boat," the might of nature shows man to be...
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The Open Boat
In Part VI of "The Open Boat," the correspondent (representing Crane) recalls a verse about a dying soldier in Algiers. Prior to this experience in the boat, he had just considered this in verse...
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The Open Boat
In Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," the main character, the correspondant insists upon his power to interpret the circumstances in which he finds himself, but his is a false ability. As a result,...
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The Open Boat
The context of this quote is that the characters of the story have been in a dinghy for several days. They are close to land, but they are unable to get inshore. Essentially, they are beginning to...
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The Open Boat
This question presupposes the text pits the "brute within" against the "veneer of civilization." This will be a hard case to make and will hang on a very circumstantial thread. The text makes it...
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The Open Boat
This is an excellent question because the point of view shifts. Initially, the point of view of "The Open Boat" is told from the point of view of a third person narrator. This third person point of...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane's wrote from a Naturalistic perspective. What this means is that he upheld specific characteristics and beliefs regarding how life was portrayed in his texts. Essentially, the...
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The Open Boat
The following quote appears in Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat." When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe...
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The Open Boat
The irony which plays into Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat" could exemplify the fact that the men, when regarding the shipwrecks as apropos (meaning "fitting"), fully expect to find a...
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The Open Boat
In his story, "The Open Boat," Stephen Crane portrays the men on the boat as representatives of human endurance in an indifferent universe against which they are helpless. This, of course is a...
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The Open Boat
In Stephen Crane's short story, "The Open Boat," no relationship exists between a mother and her son. Given that Crane was a Naturalistic writer, the story contains elements true to the traditional...
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The Open Boat
The most important element in "The Open Boat" is man's realization of his insignificance and of the total indifference of nature to his fate. The men in the boat will either die or reach land...
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The Open Boat
In Stephen Crane's "Open Boat," there is in the correspondent and the others who are shipwrecked an antithesis of feelings that parallels the rise and fall of the waves as the men "watched the...
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane is a naturalistic story based upon Crane's own experience of being shipwrecked when he was a journalist. In this story, the view of nature is unromantic, and...
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The Open Boat
In his essay, "'Interpreting’ the Uninterpretable: Unreasoning Nature and Heroic Endurance in Crane’s ‘The Open Boat’," Mark Elliot writes, In a perfect metaphor of the forces of nature...
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The Open Boat
The cook is defined by his dress and the way that his sleeves are said to be "rolled over his fat forearms" and his vest unbuttoned. He is also distinguished by his habit of saying "Gawd! that was...
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The Open Boat
The main theme of "The Open Boat" is Stephen Crane's favorite theme of the complete indifference of nature to mankind in a godless universe. When the men are finally washed ashore, one of them is...
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The Open Boat
While strong arguments can be made for #4, and #5, statement #1 seems most central to the theme of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." For, the proof of this statement comes at the end of the story...
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The Open Boat
In Stephen Crane’s story “The Open Boat,” a character called the correspondent struggles, along with several other men, to save his life by rowing a small boat in search of land after their...
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The Open Boat
It is important to understand that this text is an example of Naturalism, which is a philosophical belief in the insignificance and powerlessness of man compared to the might and power of nature....
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The Open Boat
There are a few differences between Stephen Crane's short story The Open Boat and a shipwreck account entitled Stephen Crane's Own Story. One difference a reader of each text can see immediately is...
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The Open Boat
The summary of Parts II and III take the four men in the open boat from far out at sea to within sight of land, a feat they celebrate with four dry cigars and three dry matches. Part II opens with...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane is a Naturalistic writer. Naturalistic writers texts focused upon the power of nature over mankind, characters who failed to see that they possessed no free will, and settings which...