An Analysis of Death in "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

An Analysis of Death in "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane In the short story "***** Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, the recurring theme in the story is about death and dealing with ***** will to survive. Th***** important ***** can be illustrated through the characters in the story: the captain, correspondent, cook, and oiler. Each characters in ***** story have their own outlook on viewing death, ***** they story also simultaneously illustrates how the characters struggle to keep from dying and continue living even though the possibilities of death is possible everyday, as they live life in an 'open boat' tossed upon by the violent sea, with no food to eat nor water to dr*****k, ***** open to all bad elements and dangers of the sea. ********** *****, is, in summary, a good study of ***** people think, feel, and act when impending ***** is coming, especially under extraordinary circumstances, such ***** surviving a boat accident like ***** men have experienced. The psychology ***** dying can ***** interpreted and explained in various perspectives. For every culture, various explanations and beliefs towards d*****h can be encountered. But there are two general prevailing concepts of death ***** ***** in the society today. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross provided these two ***** concepts in dying, and the first thought states that people go ***** five stages in fac*****g death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. As an individual gains ***** of someone's death or even his or her own impending death, people go through a period ***** 'preparatory grief,' wherein *****y become silent, refuse ********** visitors, and spend too much time crying ***** grieving. However, the second prevailing concept of ***** and ***** is entirely the opposite case ***** the first one. Most often than not, ***** are people who do not experience the acceptance stage, because ***** struggle on to keep and continue their *****s, and refuses ***** accept the prospect