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Draft of essay on "The Open Boat"

Walter B. Goodwin

WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
English 1302
Mrs. Andrewartha
November 19, 2003

In the span of your life time, you will certainly be sure to encounter some struggle against nature. Your struggle may be as little as trying to change a tire in the middle of a rain storm or as severe as expressed in Stephen Crane's story The Open Boat. From the beginning of time man has pondered the question as to "Why was I placed here on Earth?" We tend to see ourselves as being important, that we have to leave our mark in order for life to have some sort of meaning.
In this story, four men, known simply as the captain, the oiler, the correspondent, and the cook, become stranded in the sea in a small boat. Together they are forced to bare the torments of one of Mother Nature's toughest challenges, the open sea. In this process these four men learn much about nature and just how little they are on Earth. One of the......

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