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The Open Boat
Literary Naturalism is, in many ways, similar to literary Realism. Both styles of writing tend to ground themselves in realistic events, dealing with logical, reasonable situations. They both...
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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
It's a sign that what the narrator calls the "lightheartedness of a former time" has now given way to an atmosphere of fear and dark foreboding. The repetition of this expression—"If I am going...
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The Open Boat
Both Edith Wharton and Stephen Crane are considered part of the American Naturalism movement. American Naturalism was a literary movement that spanned the 1890s to the 1910s. In fact, Crane is...
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The Open Boat
In the second paragraph of the story, the narrator says that many men actually have, or should have, a bathtub which is larger than the boat that contained the poor men after their ship sunk....
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" is a classic of naturalism due to its emphasis on the indifference of nature and, by extension, the universe. The men in the boat are angry at their misfortune, blaming the ill will...
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The Open Boat
In part 5 of “The Open Boat,” the correspondent is on rowing duty when he sees a trail like “blue flame”; when he spots the fin speeding through the water, he realizes that a shark is...
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The Open Boat
The Open Boat’s first paragraph is relevant to the rest of the story because of its foreboding imagery. In four short sentences, Crane introduces an ominous setting for the story and places...
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The Open Boat
In “The Open Boat,” Stephen Crane seems to offer an even-handed treatment of the relative contributions of the men’s contributions and the randomness of their experience. The four occupants...
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The Open Boat
In this story, a small crew of men, including an oiler, battle against a tumultuous sea. Just as land appears, and with it the crew's hope for survival, the oiler drowns in the sea. There are two...
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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
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
Stephen Crane 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
In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, there are a few examples of man versus nature. There are a few ways in which nature is at odds with the sailors on their dinghy. The most obvious is their...
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The Open Boat
"The Open Boat" is a short story by Stephen Crane based upon the shipwreck he was involved in en route to Cuba, an experience which left him stranded in a small lifeboat with three other men off...
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The Open Boat
Throughout the story, there are a number of references to the cold that the crew had to contend with. For example, on page 7, Crane describes the "cold sea water washing back and forth in the...
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The Open Boat
In the tiny lifeboat launched from the sinking ship, Commodore, there is the cook, a heavy man who is out of shape and unused to physical labor. There is also the oiler, a young man named Billie...
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The Open Boat
In the story “The Open Book,” the captain tells the cook and the other men to take the boat farther out to the sea where the water is a bit calmer, because the big waves can get large enough to...
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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
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
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
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...
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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
"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...
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The Open Boat
With his story, "An Open Boat," Naturalist Stephen Crane depicts the men on the boat as symbolic of the heroism of human endurance against an indifferent universe. His opening sentence, "None of...
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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 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
Two secondary themes have to do with humanity's relationship to nature. The opening line of Crane's story says: None of them knew the color of the sky. This introduces the secondary thematic...
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The Open Boat
Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” deals with a handful of men who have survived the sinking of their ship at sea and who are now trying to make it back to land in a tiny boat. Many of the key...
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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
"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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Perhaps the lack of color is more significant than color itself in this Naturalistic story of Crane's. For, the first line of "The Open Boat" suggests the uninvolvement of Nature in the lives of...
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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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Yes. In fact, skilled writers of fiction and nonfiction use figurative language. Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech is riddled with figurative language, and Emerson's essays such as "Self-Reliance"...
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The line is repeated for two main reasons. First, there are several men talking, and so each is going to be concerned with the end of his own life. This repetition shows that the concerns are...
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The Open Boat
In Stephen Crane's story, "The Open Boat," four men are stranded in a small boat in the middle of the sea. For the first few pages of the story, the reader only sees what the men are able to see...
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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
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
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 first section of this great story of survival set in the ocean presents us with a range of reactions of the members of the crew that try to comprehend and grasp the situation in which they find...
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You are only allowed to ask one question so I have had to edit down your question. Please do not ask multiple questions in future. You might want to think how the presence of the shark ties in with...
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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
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
Yes, you're absolutely right! At the end of the story, the three men who have survived stand on the shore, listening to the waves, "and they felt they could then be interpreters." Crane's...
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The Open Boat
The last paragraph encapsulates what I believe is the main point of Crane's story: the randomness of nature and of the outside forces to which man is subject. In the boat, the men seem to be...
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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
One clue as to why the olier dies--and is the only one to die--lies in the importance of the textual connection between the oiler and the correspondent as seen in light of the Naturalist...
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The Open Boat
The answer to this question comes in the first section of this excellent tale of survival against the harsh elements of nature. As we are presented to the four men in their desperate situation, the...
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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
As the men in the dingy fight against the infinite waves of the ocean in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," there is a sort of inner refrain which collectively runs through their minds: If I am...
