Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Open Boat
I enjoyed the short story the open boat, This story tells us about us about four men on a samllboat trying to find land. There naames was the cook, the oiler known as billy, captain, and the correspondant. The cook was the most talkative out of the four men. The four of them were al in danger of survival. No food and water because of the rough river, salt water. But the captain was sure that theyll make it to shore. He spootted a light house not to far away. Basically the light house was deserted. The men not understanding that as time continues to pass that they would grow weaker. Somebody spotted them on the shore waving at them. But they were only tourists that thought they were fisherman. So thats when the four men figured that there was no help coming. So while the men set off continuing to sail across the sea looking for light. They wasnt successful trying to find that so thats when thoughts of drowning came to heads. But i think this story was interesting because it takes courage to sail across rivers for days in a small boat like they did. But it was fattle for a coupe that died in the end.
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i thought this was a very interstinf story of four men trying to survive in a life boat after their shipped wrecked and they were left with no food or drinkable water. in the story the chef was the only one who could not row due to his weight or something yet he was very talkative an kept his comrades morale up by being lively and happy whenm things looked grim. but the sad part in this story came at the end when the oiler who was the strongest out of the four died because he pulled to many shifts rowing to safety. this is a turn from many writers and scientist who belive in survivl of the fittest because as stated the oiler was the strongest yet was the only man who died.
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