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    the boss tried talking to him George did all of the talking. I think the boss had a reason to be mad at the two because if they wanted to job bad enough they could have atleast showed up on time to do the work. Male Friendship Of Mice and Men explores the dynamics of male friendship. When Lennie asks George to tell him why they’re not like other ranchers‚ George explains that they’re different because they have each other. Usually ranchers have no family‚ no friends‚ and‚

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    personal life. Personal life experiences‚ personal facts‚ relationships‚ and so on. Characters and themes of the story portray part of the author’s life events and gives the reader an insight of the history of the author. The short stories “A Pair of Tickets‚” “The Open Boat‚” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ all revolve around characters who mirror their authors. Amy Tan’s “ A Pair of Tickets” begins with the main character (Jing- Mei) on her way to China to fulfill her mother’s dream. As the train enters

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    The story is about three men who become very wealthy‚ and portray each other for the others wealth. Will the men figure out a way to handle having a lot of money or are the going to start killing each other? The three men come from a poor working class and are just hanging on to everything they have. The three men who are of different ages‚ do their everyday thing; drinking‚ gambling‚ and flirting until a pardoner comes into the bar and starts to talk with them. The men see a funeral occurring

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    "The Open Boat" implies the overall relationship between the individual and nature. This sentence also implies the limitations of anyone’s perspective. The men in the boat concentrate so much on the danger they are in‚ that they are oblivious and unaware to everything else; in other words‚ maybe lacking experience. "The Open Boat" begins with a description of four men aboard a small boat on a rough sea. The central theme of this story is about confronting Nature itself. "The Open Boat" is Stephen

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    The Open Boat What can Man do when faced with a Universe that has no concern for him? Begin to contemplate the belief that man has a role in the universe‚ that existence should mean something. A feeling of loneliness is conveyed from the understanding that man is alone in the universe and insignificant to the workings of the universe. In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane‚ Crane exemplifies mans insignificance to the universe and nature because ultimately fate decides and fate is an indifferent‚ uncontrollable

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    Open Boat Symbolism allows writers to suggest their ideas within a piece of literature. This is found in most types of writing. Stephen Crane expresses this in his short story‚ The Open Boat. Through symbolism and allegory‚ it is demonstrated that humans live in a universe that is unconcerned with them. The characters in the story come face to face with this indifference and are nearly overcome by Nature’s lack of concern. This is established in the opening scenes‚ the "seven mad gods" and in

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    Literary analysis “The open boat” Determination was what the sailors from “The open boat had‚” with their drive into finding land and there hope into finding shore would they not give their lives into the cold heartless ocean. Days after days of seeing the ocean at its worst and days with no food could they only have hope and determination to finding land and being safe? As weak as they were they relied on each other to get through it. With the captain being emotionally distraught about losing

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    significant meaning regardless if it’s a small part or not. In the novels: Crime and Punishment‚ The Trial‚ and The Stranger all three novels provides readers with women who may have small characters in each novels‚ but each characters have a significant part. In all three novels‚ women are being depict differently by their choices of self-sacrificing‚ inferiority to men and powerlessness‚ and depicted as insignificant and weak-minded. In the novel Crime and Punishment‚ the author Dostoyevsky uses

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    picture to the events that transpired that cold January are uncovered. "The Open Boat‚" is very rich in symbolism. Symbolism evokes or describes ideas and feelings through the use of symbolic images. In chapter seven of "The Open Boat‚" the narrator describes a tower. "It was a giant‚ standing with its back to the plight of the ants" (Crane 297). The tower represents many different things. To the men in the boat the tower may represent freedom‚ hope‚ or a win against nature. While to the reader

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    *Open Boat* This short story refers to broader themes of man’s existential situation and relationship to nature. The opening line of the story indicates the existential disembodiment experienced by the shipwreck survivors. They are so consumed by their trouble that they are unaware of something so apparent as the sky’s color. In addition‚ by not often using their names (and referring to them as their professions instead)‚ the writer expands the scope of the story. The reader can more closely identify

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