The Open Boat Compare and Contrast Essay - 1023 Words

ENG 101 Feb. 3, 2011 The Open Boat Compare and Contrast Essay Rough Draft This paper is about the story â€Å"The Open Boat† written by Stephen Crane. In this paper, I will try to provide the similarities of the original story with the newspaper account. The differences in each article will also be discussed. Lastly, I will provide a conclusion based on the facts of both articles. The Open Boat begins with a description of men aboard a small boat on a rough sea. These men are all survivors of a shipwreck. There is the cook, overweight and sloppily dressed, who is trying to remove water from the bottom of the boat. The oiler, a physically powerful man named Billie who is rowing with one oar. There is†¦show more content†¦He shares this thought with the other men, and the oiler smiles in sympathy. The men smoke cigars drink their water and wait to be spotted by the lighthouse rescue crew, unwilling to run their boat ashore in the rough waves. The lighthouse appears deserted. The men discuss rowing toward land swimming through the surf once the boat finally capsizes in the rougher water that is closer to shore. The crew knows that, over time, they will grow weaker and things will get worse, not better. They exchange with each other â€Å"addresses and admonitions†, in case all of them do not live through this whole ordeal Later, someone is seen on the shore waving to them. A while later, a crowd gathers, disembarking from a bus. Despite their efforts to let the people know on shore they were in distress, they realize that the people on shore are tourists and that they think they are just simple fisherman. Thoughts of drowning run rampant in every man’s mind on that boat. At dawn, the men decided that their only chance is to row toward the distant shore again and swim when the boat finally capsizes. On the Captain’s order, the oiler rows the boat directly toward the shore. 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