When I read “The Open Book” by Stephen Crane it was very long and I found the wording in the story a little difficult to understand. I had to reread a few sentence and look up some of the words. However the complicated words didn’t stop me from reading the story because I was really into it. I wanted to know what was going to happen to these four men because Crane kept the readers at suspense as to what was going to happen to the four men. At first I thought these men were doomed that they would die of thirst, eat each other up, or be eaten by a shark or whale. When none of those things happen I began rooting for all four men to survive. At the end, right when I thought they all made it on shore alive I was shocked to read that the oiler, Billie,
