Comparison Of Watson And Winslow Homer Portrayed In The Fog Warning

In the beginning of The Open Boat, the author Stephen Crane displays a wide variety of imagery. The first chapter is about several men who get stranded on a deserted island. While their ship is in the process of crashing into land, Crane describes the cruel waves. "The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times it's edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks". With much hesitation, Crane subtly foreshadows the future events.

“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane is a short story included in The Norton Introduction to Literature. In it, we embark on the journey of four men, whose ship has sunk and are now adrift. The characters fight for survival throughout the whole tale, trying to withstand nature. As the story passes, they realize that nature is indifferent and uncaring. Moreover, they begin to question the existence of God. Ultimately, three of the men survive and one of them dies. Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” shows the struggle of men attempting to understand nature and desiring to survive against this invincible and indifferent force. I will analyze literary elements of character, plot, and symbol, using Literary Naturalism to demonstrate this constant conflict between man and nature that plays out in “The Open Boat.”

According to Donald Finkel, describing his own speculations help the observer understand his interpretation of the artwork. In light of this, he shares the correlation between the different parts of nature and color in the first stanza by drawing attention to how “the sea is blue”(1). By starting his poem with this reason, repeated twice with other elements of the painting, it conjures the imagery of a chain reaction within creation. The land, sea, and people are linked as one- a commentary on the inclusiveness of nature. In addition to the color blue, a connection is created with the use of similes between the color of the men’s “white faces”, which was “like the snow on Fuji...and the crest of the wave” (3). It is not by mere coincidence that the three main objects in Hokusai’s work are alike in color. Once again, land, sea, and humanity are linked in a triangle, providing balance. Finally, a yellow neutral tone envelops the people, “an earthcolored sky” that is also “the color of their boats”(8, 4-5). Finkel, and the woodblock, are saying that nature is not the tool of humans, but rather that humans are just one part of a larger world that, as the wave shows, can just as easily overwhelm

Winslow Homer created this painting The Fog Warning in 1885 using oil on canvas. The subject of this piece is the fisherman. It is currently a collection in the Museum of Fine Arts. This painting was an anonymous gift with credit to the otis norcross fund.

Because of his drunkard father, Huckleberry Finn lived his life with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Both women wanted Huck to act civilized, but he always went against their wishes. At one point, Miss Watson asked Huck, “----why don’t you try to behave?” (107) and explained to him about the concept of hell (107). Huck replied to Miss Watson’s lecture with, “I wished I was there” (107). Huck didn’t agree with their perspectives and found civilized society to be strict and harsh.

The passage personifies the ocean by talking of its playful nature of the currents “weaving in and out of one another” and its ability to change, as it has a mind of its own. The last sentence within the passage states “it was not dead but alive” the use of short sentencing emphasised its point and indicates its importance. However this short verse changes the mood of the passage, the reader is confronted by the abrupt word “dead” this single word changes the tone of the sentence and explores that along with the capability to be alive there also is the capability to be dead. This foreshadows the next passage and the future of the ocean.

The artist demonstrates the content of the painting in an exquisite way by creating a sense of fierceness. The feeling is creating with the actions of the waters, clouds and sharks. This is very much human versus nature which when looked into deeply. The sky is very subtle with a somewhat naturalistic setting. The sharks have a fire to them which complements the look of despair in the shark's eyes. Then you have the shark which is swooping in the back which causes a feeling of despair.

Hokusai shows a threatening wave shadowing over vulnerable fishermen in his artwork Under the Wave off Kanagawa. By using shapes that correspond to those of fingers, the wave gives off shivers of fear, as if it is devouring the men in the boat. The desperate men, backs leaning all the way forward, use all their power to escape the mouth of the wave. Hokusai uses tiny white circles that look like snow. The circles show a resemblance of snow falling onto a mountain to the wave slamming into the boat. These shapes contribute to the overall message of the artwork to symbolize the power of the sea. The size ratio of the wave to the humans depicted in the picture represent the power of the sea compared to the power of a human. In conclusion, the

The story starts off talking about the fog horn. When I started to read this I had no clue what a fog horn was or what it was used for. A fog horn is a like a siren that goes off every fifteen minutes or so and it warns the ships that around it that there is land near and to watch out. It is normally put on a light house so that if you can’t see the light maybe you can hear the horn. Both the light and the horn are protective barriers for the ship captains. They protect them from running into the shore.

“The Sound of the Sea” is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, describing the sounds of the sea and relating it to human inspiration. Through only auditory images of the sea and other powerful natural forces, Longfellow effectively alludes to the nature of human inspiration. Through detailed and sensory imagery, Longfellow communicates the subtle details of the human soul and how inspiration functions.

However, the rose is “caught in the drift,” floating alone in the ocean. A delicate rose would have been torn apart by its harsh currents, but the sea rose is a tough flower that is able to survive, demonstrating its strength. The sea acts as a metaphor to life’s challenges as one never knows what to expect ahead, one just has to be ready for any

They are so consumed with their struggle against the waves they do not even have the time to notice something as simple as the color of the sky. From the very beginning the reader is filled with the suspense that each individual character feels. Despite the crews struggle with Mother Nature, they are continually struck by the fierce waves. With each passing wave the reader is lead to believe that this one will surely be the one that capsizes the little dingy. “As the salty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean (256).” Crane creates suspense between the reader and the characters that allow both to feel the relentlessness of nature’s indifference of their struggled attempts to survive. It seems that no matter how hard the crew works to keep the dingy from capsizing “… the waves continued their old impetuous swooping at the dingy, and the little craft, no longer underway struggled woundily over them (259).” The narrator describes the waves as acting carefree and rather impulsive as if they had no obligation to the men for their survival. Nature does not care that this crew of men were working to survive, but nor does it mean to cause the men any harm. The waves are merely there, doing as nature intends the waves

I think the artist is able to communicate the bad condition of the ship and its crew is in. The mood of the work is scary and gloomy. The design and intensity of the waves, the changing weather, and the ships in the ocean seem to make the scene come alive. It really conveys a since of naturalism in the painting the way it depicts the environment around the ship.

The strongest aspect of this piece is line direction. In the water they encircle the action, and in the rocks they lead the viewer down into the water. They also aid in the creation of texture, rhythm, pattern, and framing. The texture created by the lines in the water reflect ripples that would actually occur in the real world.

So waves do a couple things in To the Lighthouse. First, and most importantly, they are the drumbeat of Time for Mrs. Ramsay. They are usually a soothing force, but they take on a more ominous tone when they become synonymous with destruction. For Mr. Ramsay, waves are a destructive power because they are part of the vast sea of human ignorance that eats away at a little spit of land symbolizing human knowledge. We threw out the idea that waves are a negative force, but our trash guy picked it up and threw it back at us. Smart man. How can you attach a value to the rhythm of life itself? The waves represent flux – you know, ups and downs, as well as forcibly reminding Mrs. Ramsay of transience. Life, as well as waves, always goes on, but they’re never the same. So, if you didn’t pick up on it by now, the impermanent waves are a counterpoint to the permanent light from the Lighthouse.