Stephen Crane's The Open Boat

In writing A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz’s goal is clear, to educate others on early America and debunk ignorant myths. Horwitz’s reason for wanting to achieve this goal is because of his own ignorance that he sees while at Plymouth Rock. “Expensively educated at a private school and university- a history major, no less!-I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America.” Horwitz is disappointed in his own lack of knowledge of his home country, especially with his background history and decides not only to research America’s true beginnings, but to also follow the path of those who originally yearned to discover America.

Pressure is experienced by many kids, and their parents are a primary source of it. The narrator in The Boat by Alistair MacLeod faces a tremendous amount of pressure from his parents. My parents also put a lot of pressure on me because they want me to be successful in their own way, and I do not find it helpful. To start, this pressure could lead to stress, which could then lead to long term problems such as anxiety and depression. Ever since I was young, my parents have wanted me to pursue a career in medicine.

In the book “O Pioneers!” Willa Cather discusses her views on the three philosophies of life. She makes it clear as to which one she personally adheres, from a Realistic, Romantic and Naturalistic view of the world. Cather uses many circumstances of each type of philosophy. Willa uses Romanticism lots of times in her story.

“All the pulses of the world, Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat, Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us, Pioneers! O Pioneers!” Willa Cather’s depictions of frontier life exist as both realistic and specific. Cather grew up on the Nebraskan Great Plains, in surroundings that inspired the setting of “O Pioneers!” This story discusses the story of the Bergson family, who owns a farm on the highland prairies of Nebraska, otherwise knows as, "the Divide.

Eugene Finney considers himself to be very lucky to be attacked by a shark. In fact, that shark attack may actually have saved his life. Finney was vacationing in California with his girlfriend and children. He felt something him in the back. He became disoriented, but managed to make his way back to shore.

The nineteenth century was a breeding ground for many literary movements, including realism, romanticism and naturalism. Realism consists of literature that is consistent, predictable, and sticks to the “simple truth” of how regular people live and talk. Romanticism is literature that contains things of intellect, strangeness and remoteness and tries to make the familiar unfamiliar. Finally, naturalism is literature that has regular people in extraordinary circumstances; the hero is at the mercy of larger social and natural forces, which are cruelly indifferent; traces of social Darwinism can be found in the literature and there is generally a brutal struggle for survival. Realism can be seen in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

Although I have found Stephen Crane to be an interesting person with great talent, he wasn’t always liked by the people he wanted to produce his books. Crane always went into great detail in his books, I wish more writers would start to write like

Stephen Crane is an American Novelist. He was famous for the way he represented his work. He was famous for introducing his work in a mix of naturalism and symbolism and creating emotions that every character in the story relates to one of the readers. Stephen Crane uses the elements fear and control or emotions in general to track the readers from beginning to end. He doesn’t only reveal the way these characters respond to one another, but also, the way people respond to their own irritating feelings of fear, and requirements for control.

”The Open Boat” is the most frequently discussed work of American writer Stephen Crane, famous for his naturalistic writing in which human beings have no control on their lives. It is more than a narrative of adventure. In January 1897, the writer was shipwrecked and lost at sea for 30 hours. He and three other men were forced to row to shore on a ten-foot life boat. The short story was written several weeks after the harrowing accident.

What role do we play in the universe? Do we even have agency over our own lives, or are we influenced by some larger entity? These profound questions have plagued humanity for centuries, resulting in perspectives ranging from religious fanaticism to the resigned Dadaist movement. In his 1895 novel, The Red Badge of Courage, author Stephen Crane provides a unique viewpoint of these concerns through the character of Henry, a private fighting in the 304th regiment in the Union army during the Civil War. Seminally, Crane addresses and interacts with the confusing-and as one can see in the text, paralyzing-existential fears that are precipitated by the raucous environment of the battlefield.

The Open Boat This story makes clear one more times the idea that nature is ultimately indifferent to the human condition, possessing no consciousness that we can understand. The reality of nature’s lack of concern for human beings is becoming increasingly clear in The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane. The oiler’s death and lack of explanation surrounding it reinforce the randomness of nature’s tricks and symbolize the indifference of nature toward man.

"In these short stories, as in most of his work, Crane is a consummate ironist, employing a technique that most critics find consistently suggests the disparity between an individual 's perception of reality and reality as it actually exists. " This quote is written by poetryfoundation.org and applies to Stephen Crane 's "The Blue Hotel" as the entire story exists in the irony of one of the few characters introduced, the Swede. Being a consummate ironist means Stephen Crane is very skilled in the forming of his irony 's which can make it sometimes difficult to recognize all of them throughout his works. Other ironic situations occur throughout the story which will be explained in detail. American Naturalism is a form of literary genre that first originated as an art movement

In the Open Boat by Stephen Crane, the correspondent’s seems to show a change through his nature of being a cynical man from the beginning of the story to the changed man he becomes toward the end. I believe this change was caused by the brotherhood that was formed between the four men along with the situation of them being lost at sea, which caused him to change and grow as a character. I will support this claim with both textual evidence from the story and my own character analysis of the character. In the beginning of the Open Boat, the correspondent is portrayed as a hard-bitten character that has seen it all, and believes that no joy can be found in the world.

This movement took place from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. Mark Twain, Henry James, along with many other authors became famous from their realist writing and allowed readers to see more of themselves in the stories. The next literary movement was a logical outgrowth of realism- naturalism. Naturalism dealt with the underlying causes of a person’s actions or beliefs. It was the thinking that certain factors of one’s life like social standing and wealth were inescapable elements of their fate.

Naturalism, it isn’t really a word that we hear that often in our day to day lives, but what does it mean and how does it correlate to The Call of the Wild? Naturalism, in this regard, refers to the natural properties and causes which everything arises from. And in this context, we will be examining the setting, plot, and narrator’s storytelling within The Call of the Wild, and how these elements impact our understanding of this work and its relation to naturalism. The first item we will be looking at is the setting in The Call of the Wild. The story takes place in several locations, but the primary place that it seems to revolve around is the Yukon Territory, which is east of Alaska. The timeline takes place sometime between the late 1800s and the early 1900s during the Klondike Gold Rush.