... characters" that experience "raw and unpleasant" situations. Characters do not control their environment; the environment conditions and controls the characters. (Naturalism Handout) Stephen Crane and Jack London are both true naturalist authors. In Crane's "The Open Boat" and London's "To Build a Fire" (repr. In Nina Baym, The Norton Anthology of American Literature 1865-1914, Volume C, 6th ed. [New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003] 903 ... time he is to cold and to stiff to grasp anything with his hands and he slowly starts to lose control. These stories are true naturalistic stories...

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Stephen Crane and Jack London are both writers of Naturalism, but the two authors have different styles of naturalism. Crane's "The Open Boat" and London's "To Build a Fire" are two stories that approach the idea of naturalism in different methods. In "The Open Boat," there is a conflict among the men in the boat and the ... ...

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