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This 3-page paper discusses the survival strategies as portrayed in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and also focuses on how Crane's sometimes omniscient view helps outline these strategies.
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In other words, along the lines of Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea, The Open Boat deals with mans struggle against nature; or in this case, mens struggle
against nature. Cranes method of telling this is interesting; as opposed to a third-person point of view focusing mainly on one specific
character, Crane focuses instead on an omniscient point of view, meaning that the story technically is told from the point of view of all four men; the cook, the oiler,
the correspondent and the captain who was injured when the boat went down. This is effective in many regards. First, it tends
to bring all the men together into one entity, an entity that, in its collectiveness, continues to fight for survival against the forces of nature. For example, in the struggle
with the ocean: "Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and
tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation." This phrase pretty much says it all, giving the reader the idea that traveling in a small boat in
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye manner,
what the reader needs to be seeing. These descriptions add a certain kind of sinister cast to the mens battle and conflict with the ocean and all its denizens: "Often
they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes. At these times they were uncanny and sinister in their unblinking scrutiny, and the men hooted angrily
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