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    disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.” (Stephen Crane‚ The Open Boat). Stephen Crane’s‚ “The Open Boat‚” illustrates a fictional story concerning a shipwreck at sea‚ while simultaneously emphasizes various elements of naturalism. These elements consist of constant determinism‚ the absence of God’s presence‚ and the

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    Three men in a boat by Jerome k. Jerome It is the novel about three friends Jeorge ‚ Harry‚ Jerome and the dog Montmorency. They decides to have a vacation to an island as they are exhausted due to overworkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)‚[Note 1] published in 1889‚ is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide

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    in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)‚[Note 1] published in 1889‚ is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide‚[1] with accounts of local history along the route‚ but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how

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    reality. The reader will also get a glimpse into the mind of the author and perhaps feel as if he or she is directly in the story. Stephen Crane was effective is creating a visual picture for the reader when he says‚ “A night on the sea in an open boat is a long night‚” (281). This picture gives the reader a sense of danger and suffering the characters will experience. The use of setting‚ style‚ and character allow the reader to feel the agony of the characters stranded on the open water and believe

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    Short story I was getting ready for my trip at blue john canyon I was getting all my stuff packed. My water‚ ropes‚ carabineers and my knife every thing that I needed for my trip‚ I went out got in my truck and left It was going to be a decently long trip but I was ready. It took I few hours but I finally made it to blue john‚ it was late so I went to sleep. Saturday morning I went for my long bike ride to make it to the big drop where I wanted to go. It was a seventeen mile bike ride that’s pretty

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    Comprehension Test Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences. A 1 The people in the maze were angry with Harris ... 2 George said it was most exciting to let girls tow your boat ... 3 The three men decided to go home early ... 4 Five different men said that they caught the fish ... 5 One morning George got up very early ... B a ... because his watch stopped the night before.

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    The story begins with the crash of the boat ¨Lady Vain¨ with a derelict. In this boat was Mr. Edward Prendick‚ the only man who was found. Edward Prendick starts telling the story of the original 8 men that where in a longboat. Then he says that only 3 men where the ones who survived‚ Helmar and the sailor. He then explains how these two men fell overboard because they were fighting‚ he says they sank like stones‚ and all Edward did was laugh. Now Edward is in a cabin he didn´t knew that he was there

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    to drown and be put out of my misery at any given moment. My little‚ meaningless‚ insignificant life could be held in the vast unforgiving palm of nature. Which actually happens to be exactly what is happening in Stephen Crane’s short story The Open Boat. The story chronicles the struggle of four men lost at sea. The main character‚ the correspondent‚ has quite the crisis about half way through where he realizes he could very well die at any time. Not

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    This summer I got to go to to Wisconsin Dells‚ and got to stay there for a week. Early in the morning we all woke up at 4:00 am and we brushed our teeth‚ got everything packed up in the car and we left. I took 4 hours to get there‚ we arrived at the dells at 10 am. We stayed at Mt. Olympus and they had their own private water park‚ indoor water park‚ a public water park‚ and an amusement park. They had huge water slides‚ they had this huge pick one‚ you would go sliding down so fast and then there

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    This week I chose to read and evaluate Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat and Jack London’s South of the Slot. Both of these short stories benefit from the versatility of the third person point-of-view but differ from each other in a few striking ways. Jack London writes in third person limited‚ restricting himself only to the thoughts and feelings of Freddie Drummond. It is advantageous because the unique nature of Drummond’s research allows London to explore and describe life on both sides of the

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