Lisa Meadows Jounal 7
Lisa Meadows
English 242
Professor Lloyd
Journal 7 Stephen Crane's Open Boat is a story about survival: a story about struggling to live in a very unfriendly world. The story is about man's relationship with nature when it is completely overwhelming.
The four main characters were in the ocean in a small dingy. The situation seemed doomed, riding in a very small boat in violent water most likely will end badly. Struggling to stay alive in this situation made the characters understand to a point the reason for being.
"These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation." "The craft pranced and reared, and plunged like an animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse making at a fence outrageously high." The waves were unpredictable and fierce and the boat was so tiny. They could not control the boat because one cannot change the course of nature. Realizing this the only option left was to let what was to be just be to go with the motions so to speak. There is a greater chance to live if instead of fighting they embraced what was happening. The only hope is to endure, to form together. This is how the writer explained the changes in man's role in the modern world. The Nature is the most powerful element in the world--it could never be manipulated and it could not even be predicted. To be able to survive the harshness and isolation of nature, humans have to listen and cooperate with each other. Individualism is not always the best choice, our fate is sometimes not in our own hands and, everything depends on how we cope. Using the violent sea, the dingy, and the four protagonists of the story, Crane communicates his thoughts on how to survive the natural world.
English 242
Professor Lloyd
Journal 7 Stephen Crane's Open Boat is a story about survival: a story about struggling to live in a very unfriendly world. The story is about man's relationship with nature when it is completely overwhelming.
The four main characters were in the ocean in a small dingy. The situation seemed doomed, riding in a very small boat in violent water most likely will end badly. Struggling to stay alive in this situation made the characters understand to a point the reason for being.
"These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation." "The craft pranced and reared, and plunged like an animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse making at a fence outrageously high." The waves were unpredictable and fierce and the boat was so tiny. They could not control the boat because one cannot change the course of nature. Realizing this the only option left was to let what was to be just be to go with the motions so to speak. There is a greater chance to live if instead of fighting they embraced what was happening. The only hope is to endure, to form together. This is how the writer explained the changes in man's role in the modern world. The Nature is the most powerful element in the world--it could never be manipulated and it could not even be predicted. To be able to survive the harshness and isolation of nature, humans have to listen and cooperate with each other. Individualism is not always the best choice, our fate is sometimes not in our own hands and, everything depends on how we cope. Using the violent sea, the dingy, and the four protagonists of the story, Crane communicates his thoughts on how to survive the natural world.