... wise. But she was indifferent, flatly indifferent."" (Pg. 1717) These men knew that the sea didn't care if they lived or drowned, and that the waves would still break monotonously whatever the outcome may be. "If I am going to be drowned, if I am going to be drowned, if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad ... by his reassurances that we will always have each other. Fellowship and brotherhood, hugely imbedded in the story, definitely foreshadow what is to transpire in the end. Only the oiler goes at this journey alone because he is secure in his own strength. He i...

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... . Nature did not care whether Billie lived or died. Justice is not an element of nature. Billie's survival was never assured. The ambiguity of nature forces humans to submit. Billie goes outside the order of Nature. He does not pass with the storm but fights it. In the end, his attempts for survival leave him dead. Though Nature seems to make ... made between the men and nature. It is only after the men's understanding that they realize that man cannot hope to win with nature. He must be willing to accept whatever is offered to him. Man must be willing to submit. The point that grows sha...

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... the boat, however they did cause a menace to the men and the boat. The men already being in a very vulnerable position have to fear every move of nature. Nature, in whatever form it may be, is always more forceful than man. Nature does not consider the strengths and weaknesses of humans, but just continues on its own course. Throughout the ordeal ... human beings. The correspondent had been taught to be skeptical of men, but his shared tragedy with the other three men on the boat forces him to form a solidarity that goes beyond mere associations. At one point during his turn of rowing, ...

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... about the battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty calls. He felt like a servent doing whatever his superiors told him. When the regement finally discovers a battle taking place, Jim gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be his first and last ... . Henry felt the generals were a lot of "lunkheads" for making them retreat instead of confronting the enemy. Henry begins to feel that, he and Wilson, are going to die, but goes to battle anyway. In battle, Henry beg...

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