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The eleventh paragraph of Crane's story demonstrates that the narrator has a role to play in the men's physical and psychological survival. The captain and the cook both say that they have just...
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The first paragraph of the story goes a long way toward setting the mood for the text. There is something sad about the statement that none of the men "knew the color of the sky." It is as if there...
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While each of the four characters in the story has his own unique relationship with the events taking place, the narrator’s point of view provides the audience with a pragmatic diagnosis of the...
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Naturalism is a sub-genre of realism. Crane's writing reflects realistic and naturalistic qualities. The Open Boat is an example of realism because it portrays events objectively and realistically....
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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 class...
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We know from the very start of “The Open Boat” that color (or the lack of it) will be of some significance. In the first lines we learn that “none of them knew the color of the sky.” but that “all...
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This writing prompt is an incredibly difficult prompt. Naturalism is just not a currently popular genre. I believe a big part of that is due to the fact that people generally like reading things...
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This post is asking multiple questions, so I would like to focus this answer on the indifference of nature that is illustrated in this story. The genre that most often displays the uncaring...
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All of the characters in the story are quite literally in the same boat, which means that even though they might not ordinarily give each other the time of day, they have to put aside their...
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“The Open Boat” is an 1897 short story written by American poet, novelist and short story author Stephen Crane. It is actually based on real life events and depicts the experiences of the young...
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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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In part 5, the correspondent is taking his turn rowing; he and the oiler, Billie, are the only two of the four men who can really row: the captain is injured and the cook is physically unable. All...
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One way to go about analyzing this powerful short story is by examining its genre of Naturalism and how it goes about conveying Naturalist principles. Literary Naturalism began in the late...
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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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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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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 to...
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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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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" 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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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 creating that...
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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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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 of the...
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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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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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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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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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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" 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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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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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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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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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 ship...
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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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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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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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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" 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,...
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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" 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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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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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 themes...
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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" 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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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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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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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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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...
