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Helplessness creates the feeling of fear,which connell uses to create suspense. To start the story Rainsford unwillingly falls off the yatch and is left in the giant sea. Rainsford "cry was pinch off short" when the "Blood warm water crossed over his head" (15). The reader feels a big rush of hopelessness while he is floating in the sea. There is hope that the boat will turn around but the reader soon realizes it is gone. There vivid descriptive words help make Rainsfords situation seem rough and

“If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.” Deepak Chopra I was raised in a military family, my dad served twenty years. I know that growing up around republicans such as my dad, mom and grandpa this could have influenced me to be the republican I am today. Since I was five years old I have attended

In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen she describes the unsettling existence of being black living in a white world. She demonstrates the dynamics of racism through the anecdote on Serena Williams. Rankine finds in Williams another version of herself: a strong African American woman, playing a white man's game by a white man's rules. Her writing Citizen is certainly written from a place of anger. Rankine is fed up with having her identity gradually erased from her, because of her skin tone. The moment she

Stephen Crane was a naturalistic writer. One of his story’s “The Open Book,” focuses on four men stuck out in the open sea. After something happens to their boat the captain, Billie the oiler, the cook, and the correspondent must all work together to get to safety. The two important working member on the dinghy is Billie. The captain had been injured, the cook has no experience, and the correspondent is just trying to help Billie in any possible way. Billie in the end drowns. Each of these survivors

When reading "The Open Boat", by Stephen Crane, one quickly starts to realize that life is not all fair. The short story starts off with a ship sinking during one night in open waters, and the only survivors are four men. These men are in a small dingy, and they are trying to keep it afloat. Yet the men struggle to keep it afloat due to the rough surf. All throughout the story, one tends to notice the struggle and perseverance of the four men. Not only that, but during the course of the story, these

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat:” An Analysis According to Literary Naturalism “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

towards the house, my father opened the door and walked in. I took a step on the squeaky wooden floor and looked around, it was very open and for sure needed to get dusted and wiped clean. I spotted the stairs and went running towards them

To become an accomplished athlete do you really need to practice for 10,000 hours? In Gladwell’s Outlier’s book, he describes the need of people that become experts in their chosen areas to devote 10,000 hours of practice time to achieve that goal. As a high school golfer, I devote several hours a day during the school year to practicing golf. In the summer, I put in more hours. In an article from protourgolfcollege.com, it states, “To practice your golf stroke correctly 100 times is helpful;

“The first commander is getting restless, we need to hurry,” a fair-haired Kingsman commented to another, peeking inside the open door of the last home near the entrance to the grain field. He locks eyes with a disheveled young maiden holding on tightly to a frightened little boy when entering first through the singed door. “Go away and leave us alone!” the disheveled maiden yells, stepping backward ‘till she couldn’t move any further. “My son and I have already been questioned by your men.” The

Alone at Sea The story “the open boat” was written in 1897 by Stephen Crane. This story was loosely written from actual events. Stephen was on the USS Commodore on Jan 2 1897. The ship hits a sandbar in dense fog. Leaving him and three others alone in a life raft, and this is where our story starts off. The author uses settings here to set a mood of despair illustrating how being left alone with Mother Nature can leave you feeling irrelevant. The author uses setting to portray a feeling of hopelessness