Isolated Boat Short Story

My mind began clearing and I realized what the captain had just asked of me. I knew what I needed to do to try and save the ship. I don't what made me, but I bolted towards the masts. I’m not even sure how I made it there. The constant rocking of the ship threw me off balance with almost every step, but still I powered on.

Symbolism allows writers to suggest their ideas within a piece of literature. This is found in most types of writing. Stephen Crane expresses this in his short story, The Open Boat. Through symbolism and allegory, it is demonstrated that humans live in a universe that is unconcerned with them. The characters in the story come face to face with this indifference and are nearly overcome by Nature’s lack of concern. This is established in the opening scenes, the “seven mad gods” and in the realization of the dying soldier. The descriptions that Crane uses in the opening scenes illustrate nature’s lack of concern for their tragedy. He discusses the waves in the ocean that continually roll and crest. The waves are problems or

Teresa is kind when she rescues an inexperienced windsurfer, Jamie. “The clouds start to move in, warning signs… ‘Can you get back to shore?’ I ask.

On the Captain’s order, the oiler rows the boat directly toward the shore. The boat capsizes and the people on the boat are so weak that it is hard for them to even keep their heads above water.

The short story “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked on the boat to support his family. Through this passage it is evident that the parents’ characters clash in many aspects of their lives and are in constant conflict. MacLeod demonstrates this through the use of repetition, the contrast in other unrelated ideas, and through information that is withheld.

The author’s frightening story, “The Storm” has all the expected things that a good scary story should have. It has a story line that gains suspense throughout the story, there is irony, and there is lots of

The weather was decent, but evening was approaching and it was getting chillier. A lay on my stomach and steady the tube as Noah gets on. We grab on to the handles in front of us and the tube is propelled forward by the boat. We started picking up speed, but it was still easy to stay on the tube. We started reaching speeds of up to forty miles per hour. It was amazing, the water flashed by on either side. We were still going straight but we were ramping off waves. The water splashed in my face every time we went airborne and landed again, but I didn’t care. And then we started turning. We turned right, which was the side I was on. We just let the tube go where it wanted to go, but that was a mistake. The tube came closer to the gigantic wave made by the boat engine. We reamped of the wave, and I knew I was a goner. I began sliding off the tube, and I thought I was gone. Finally my body was flung into the water, but my hands had a firm grip on the handle bars. Uncle ralph slowed down enough so I could pull myself up on the tube. With most of my body soaking wet, and slippery. When we turned again we turned left. This time we tried to lean against the wave. The tactic worked pretty good, but me hit the wave again. Noah was gone in an instant. I look back and he is floating some ways back

His disconnect is exemplified by his back to the camera (Staub & Gillespie, 2015, para. 11). For Tony, "it warms [his] heart to be here" showing the emotional attachment he has to the land, and how it now means something to him and his identity. The sounds of the water crashing along the shore, along with the

There wasn’t time for all her questions. It took all Gabe and Steve’s strength on one of the big ‘oars or horns’ and the Captain on the other one to get the boat pushed off from the sticky bottom of the loading dock. As the heavily laden boat moved into the open water, Alma noticed water seeped between the top of the bottom two boards. She took a moment to bend her head in prayer while the Captain steered with the long aft pole and both men worked the long sweeps to get the 16’ wide boat righted into the channel. She wasn’t sure, but guessed it was over three times as long as its

Nevertheless, the flag stands erect and flapping in the wind. On the right side of the piece, we view the exact magnitude of the storm through the “white wash” of the violent waves. Additionally, the sky to the right of the ship’s crow’s nest is lighter and hints of a sun trying to break through the lurking darkness. Despite the presence of other visual elements, what clearly connects is that the ocean, embellished and predominantly highlighted in the work, was Moran’s principal interest. However, the fact that something so fleeting as surging waves dominates the composition even to the visual expense and weight of an obviously colossal ship.

Courage through actions is one of the more visible traits of people placed in a life or death situation. In “The Open Boat”, by Stephen Crane the decision to act potentially saved the lives of the crew members. While it is not mentioned directly in the story the main ship, the crew was on sank, therefore causing the characters of the story to assume their current position in the lifeboat. This initial act of courage saved those four crew members lives as some were not as fortunate as it is stated that the captain is haunted by “seven faces turned down in the sea” (Crane 2). In the same way that the crew chooses to abandon the ship they also had to make the choice to abandon the lifeboat in order to make it to the shore (Crane 13). Tired and weak after several days of rowing through the rough seas these men had to have the courage to abandon that boat and make the swim to shore. By taking action over inaction three of

He tries to lead his crew home, but he is the only one that actually arrives. In

We sit in silence scared of what’s outside the deck of the boat. After a few silent seconds Christian stands up and climbs up the ladder, out of our room. I listen to his footsteps as they slowly get quieter and quieter until all that remains is the sound of boots splashing in the water. I look down at my hands as they continue to shake, slide my handgun into the holster, pick up my rifle and follow Christian to the foreign shores of

"The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, has been critiqued and deconstructed by many thinkers. One such critique is "The Dialogic Narrative of `The Open Boat'." This critique on Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," was written by two authors: Sura P. Rath and Mary Neff Shaw. The authors focused on a five main points in the duration of this Critique. First Mikail Baktin's theory of the "Five basic types of discourses," are discussed and used in the deconstruction of "The Open Boat." The critique then delves into the use of first-person actor-character to third person spectator-narrator. Shaw and Rath then annotate the tonal quality of "The Open Boat." Fourthly the critique characterizes and analyzes the key figures of the Novel. Lastly

Jerry gets back to the bay he climbed on to the rocks where the boys