... Universe, and are nearly overcome by nature's lack of concern. Through persistence and cooperation is how these men attempt to survive. The correspondent's moral maturity shows the story's naturalism and realism, the oiler's sudden death also brings out naturalism. The story depicts the world, mainly the toughest of man, such as the oiler, who is physically and morally the superior of ... beyond his control that he suffers without apparent justification that he confronts the reality of nothingness."" His opinion is one side of the way the story can be understood. Unlike realism, which i...

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