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In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, four survivors of a tragic shipwreck are forced to live in a lifeboat and fight for survival. The four men are the cook, the oiler, the correspondent, and the captain. The captain assures the men that they are getting very close to a manned lighthouse that he is familiar with, although day by day the men see no lighthouse. The men start to lose hope when finally, land comes into sight. In their great efforts to make landfall, the oiler drowns, despite being…

Stephen Crane was one of America's foremost realistic writers, and his works have been credited with marking the beginning of modern American Naturalism. His Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a classic of American literature that realistically depicts the psychological complexities of fear and courage on the battlefield. Influenced by William Dean Howells's theory of realism, Crane utilized his keen observations, as well as personal experiences, to achieve a narrative vividness…

Due to the fact that both films revolve around wartime, it is no surprise violence was to be endured. Characters in both Cranes and Battle endured violence for the sake of their country, though in a severely different way. In Cranes, violence was experienced, for the most part, from an external force. World War Two affected more lives because Europe became the battlefield, and thus resulted in the deaths of many civilians and soldiers. This was exhibited in the film through both the bombings of…

“The Open Boat” Research Paper In the short story “The Open Boat”, Stephen Crane depicts the tale of four crewmen, hours after a disaster that destroyed their ship and left them sailing in treacherous waters aboard a life boat, trying to make it back to shore alive. The characters in the story share the same drive for survival and work beyond exhaustion to achieve their seemingly impossible goal to sail the boat onto a Cuban beach while being assaulted by the forces of nature. The Correspondent,…

collection of 34 pieces of writing titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. One of the most popular short stories amongst this collection, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is noted for its action, adventure, romance, horror, and even comedy. Ichabod Crane, the protagonist of the story, is an awkward schoolteacher living in the eerie town of Sleepy Hollow, which is known for its daunting atmosphere that spooks its inhabitants and visitors. Towards the end…

Herein I will discuss the various ways in which Mitani Kikuji veers from normality in Yasunari Kawabats 's Thousand Cranes. Primarily focusing upon the sociological, psychological and gender based aspects of the text in relation to the norm; pertaining to the archetypal Japanese male. More precisely I will cover the underlying source of Kikuji 's obsessive behaviour. The social implications this had. As well as the ways in which he differs from the standard male gender role. As it is presently…

The American short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was written while Washington Irving was living in England. Washington Irving wanted the film audience to capture a gothic tone that mirrors a slightly surreal place. Throughout the text, Irving describes Sleepy Hollow as, “Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvelous…

Stephen Crane makes sure we see that violence was a trend in New York tenements he does this by providing the story in which includes fights , abuse and a lot male dominance. In Maggie: A Girl of The Streets starts of by including a scene in where Maggies brother Jimmie is involved in a street fight in Bowery neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side. Right from the beginning we are introduced with some sort of violence going on . From this we would infer that wouldn’t be the last time we would…

“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats” (Crane 1769). This quote personifies nature and makes it seem like nature is a person literally trying to kill the characters and, really, anxious to do so and characters on the boat could literally do nothing about it. The narrator in The Yellow…

According to Haviland, “Verbal arts generally transmit and preserve a culture’s customs and values” (341). Throughout the United States, the story of the Headless Horseman, a verbal story described in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is well-known in American folklore. It is a scary story that many children tell around the campfire in an attempt to scare one another, saying that if someone is not careful, the Headless Horseman will come for them. However, many Americans do not realize that this…