Stephen Crane

Open Boat (Creative Short Stories)

Amina Madadi (ⴰⵎⵉⵏⴰ)

This is the story of four men, a wounded captain, an oiler, a correspondant and a cook who spent three days in icy waters in a ten-foot tall dinghy after a shipwreck . 
The descriptions of the sea, its colors and waves, feelings, states of mind, fatigue, physical and mental exhaustion as the hours pass is splendid.
The four men came in sight of shore but a reef prevents them from mooring, almost dying from fatigue, they jump in the waters and take their chance, on land, help arrives but at what cost?
The story reminded me of the old man and the sea, how cruel can nature be and how insignificant man can be .

Open Boat (Creative Short Stories)

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