The Open Boat Analysis

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Has one ever had a bird soil one's clothing or felt one with nature when sitting in a park? Then one might possibly feel how the four men (the oiler, the captain, the cook, and the correspondent) in Stephen Crane's book, "The Open Boat," felt. These men rowed around the seas in a lifeboat trying to find land after getting shipwrecked. The men create a brotherhood after being in the boat for so long, the opposite feeling toward nature. They were rescued soon after they decided to tip the boat over to swim to shore. On the other hand, Sarah Orne Jewett's, "A White Heron," is about a girl named Sylvia who lives with her grandmother and meets a hunter who is looking for a white heron that will pay to be lead to the bird. Sylvia then realizes she …show more content…
Although "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane and "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett both have a heavy element of nature in the stories, Crane's story depicts nature as a dark force against humans and Jewett's portrays nature as a force of …show more content…
Stories have started out in the middle of the action while others have ended and the narrator shows flashbacks of what happened. "The Open Boat" begins the story with "the particular violence of the sea had ceased. The waves came without snarling." (117) At this time in the story the sea calmed down after rocking the men this way and that. Jewett's talks about a specific part of the woods the "farthest edge of the woods, where the land was highest, a great pine-tree stood, the last of its generation" (208). The last part of the quote tells of more trees with those features being torn down by man or other forces of nature or it could foreshadow other dark parts in the story. Crane talks about the men and how they see the land coming out from the sea. He verbalizes, "Slowly and beautifully the land loomed out of the sea" (109). This makes it seem like the land was escaping from the seas grasp. When Sylvia in "A White Heron" hears the hunter talking about wanting to find the bird her insides do a flip particularly her "heart gave a wild beat" (206). This is because Sylvia has seen the white heron and now needs to make a decision if she wants to keep the bird a secret to herself or tell the hunter and get the money he was going to give out to the person that helped him find the bird. Crane's story
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