The Open Boat Sparknotes

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The story “The Open Boat” tells of men on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. Has you keep reading the story details of it come to spring up throughout it. A shipwreck had occurred moreover, there were only four survivors. One of the survivors names is Billie he was much built and a muscular man; he rowed one of the oars of the boat. The other three survivors were the cook, an unknown person, and the captain of the ship that wrecked. As the tiny boat drifted through the ocean it was threatened by massive waves. Hoping that they will be rescued by rescuers.
As the article starts out it tells the reader about Stephen Crane the writer of “The Open Boat,”; how he wrote the story as a real life experience. In 1897, Crane was shipwrecked

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