Theme Of Nature In The Open Boat

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is written in a third person omniscient point of view. The narrator of the story can see everything that is going on with the characters and is an outside narrator. The primary conflict of the story is Man vs. Nature; it is between the ocean and the man. The protagonist of the story would be the captain, oiler, cook, and correspondent while the ocean is the antagonist. The ocean is the antagonist because it gives the most trouble to the men. A rising action of the story will be when the men are very tired and hungry, but they are out on the water. After sailing for a while the men see land. They see people and an old house, but they soon find that the people on land will not help them. Because of this, they continue to make their way out to the ocean. When a shark comes close to the boat while one of the men was rowing they came to a decision that they needed to get off the boat. The men soon spot the shore; they jump off the boat and swim to shore because the waves are too harsh for the men to row the boat. The climax of the story is the suspense of whether the men are going to make it to the shore because they appear to be struggling against the waves. The readers don’t know if the men will fall victim to the ocean because the waves keep pulling them under. The men soon reach the shore where a lot of people gather around them and give them blankets. This is the falling action of the story. The soon notice that one of their friends, Oiler did