Yet Etta Heine is open about her hatred towards the Japanese population. ... Only with this additional evidence, sparking a re-examination of Carl's boat, lead to the truth. How a simple accident of a freighter swamping a boat, leads to an opportunity to persecute a member of a racial minority leads us to question our own impartiality, and whether out pursuits for the truth are clouded by personal subjectivity. ...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because of the open ending that the novel has, the readers have no way of finding out whether Santiago is really innocent or not. ... The way he dresses the day he arrives at Angela's village makes quite a statement. " He arrived on the weekly boat with some saddlebags decorated with silver that matched the buckle of his belt and the rings on his boots- (27). ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". ... A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant fear that is lingering in human nature regarding the unpredictable nature of death. ... Crane expresses the terrifying nature of the inability to control the waves as he narrates; "A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping bo...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate