Stephen Crane's story, The Open Boat, deals primary with pessimism. ... Being in a small boat in the middle of an ocean is very tough. ... However, the situation in Crane's The Open Boat is different. ... In comparing the Vikings and the five men in the small boat, we can tell that indeed, the sea or the external forces control their faith and their destiny. ...
The god Ea whispered to Utnapishtim in a dream and warned him to build a boat as to avoid being destroyed by flood with the rest of the world. When the boat is complete, Utnapishtim was instructed to "take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures" and because of his obedience Ea will "rain down abundance, rare fish and shy wild-fowl, a rich harvest-tide [and] in the evening [he'll] bring you wheat in torrents". After the boat was completely built, he loaded it with all the living things, his family, and all that he had of gold. ... " When all animals wer...
Another story which the confrontation of death was positive was the story of The Open Boat where the cook, the oiler, the correspondent, and the captain survived a shipwreck and remained floating in the violent sea on a dinghy. ... The two works in which death is positive is the stories of The Man With The Flower In His Mouth and The Open Boat. ...
The repetition of the words "Go and open the door makes the reader consider a range of possibilities as to what may lie behind that door. ... This can be seen through the imagery used to remind the reader that there are no certainties when we open the door, just opportunities from the common and ordinary, "a tree", " a garden" to the fantastic and abstract, "magic city". ... The repeated rhythm of the words, "Go and open the door" and "maybe," encourages the reader to at least seek change and open the door as there is still benefit in experiencing whatever we find, no matter ho...
Victor is now at a loss, the one true time he wishes to open up his secret he is briskly turned away. ... Victor's self-revelation made it possible for him to die that day on the boat, for he now understood exactly what his life stood for. ...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...
