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Theme Of The Open Boat

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“The Open Boat” is a story of four men who are abandoned on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. Throughout the story it shows their struggle to come to terms with their situation; and not only does it show their physical strifes, but it also shows their mental battles to help them survive. The men eventually lose hope of being rescued. However, in the end, the men are eventually met by people carrying rescue gear on the shore. Most of the men survived; the boiler, however, wasn’t so lucky. “The Open Boat” conveys many different ideas throughout the story, but what was the author’s main theme?
The main theme of the story “The Open Boat” is to show how insignificant one human life is to the universe. While the men were struggling to survive,

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