A Formalist and Historical-Biographical Literary Analysis on Ernest J. Gaines “The Sky is Gray” Submitted to: Dr. Mark Anthony Moyano Submitted by: Jackie Lou O. Tomas BSEd 3-3 I. SUMMARY James was an 8 year old child‚ who was teaching his mother to become a breadwinner of the family because his father was left. The story begins‚ James and his mother‚ Octavia waiting a bus that will carry them to Bayonne‚ a place in the city where the dentist can be found. The weather is cold; James
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“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane is an excellent example of literary naturalism. Naturalism‚ according to Dr. doCarmo‚ is an extension of realism in which‚ “human beings are at the mercy of uncontrollable larger forces that originate both within them and outside them.” In other words‚ nature is cruel and apathetic‚ the universe seems chaotic‚ a protagonist looks to outside forces and signs to explain their problems‚ and man is a small and seemingly helpless character in the universe. “The Open Boat”
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Stephan Crane’s "The Open Boat‚" is based upon Crane’s own experience of being in a dinghy after the ship he was on sank. This story was largely about hope‚ working together‚ and not giving up despite the hardships you face. One of the expressed ideas in this story is the feeling of community and working together for a common good‚ survival! He communicates the importance of each individual’s role within the group. Crane uses a frightening situation indicating that the lives of these individual men
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and eighty thousand miles per second‚ even then‚ it would take light over four years to arrive there if it left from our planet. Does this not make you feel small and insignificant? This is precisely how the narrator felt in Stephen Crane’s‚ “The Open Boat”‚ as he and his men were floating among the vast sea‚ in a thrilling yet dangerous experience. One of the most fervent metaphysical questions about life and the universe is the notion explored in this
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deciding which way to go. I will be using the Formalist approach to analyze this poem. “This approach is most widely used in literary criticism; it focuses on the form and development of the literary work itself. Every writer chooses particular literary tools to create a representation of something that exists in his or her imagination.”(Clungston‚ R. (2010) Ch.16.para.3.) This method uses a series of questions to evaluate the literary work. This approach appealed to me because it helps reveal what
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In the short stories the "Open Boat" written by Stephen Crane and "Cathedral" written by Raymond Carver‚ tell a tale about different groups of people who go through life changing experiences and come out in the end as a stronger community. Everywhere we look communities surround us all. From our families and friends to the people we go to school with. Communities make up the essence of our everyday life. The four main characters in the "Open Boat" are the captain‚ the cook‚ the correspondent‚ and
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Stephen Crane: The Open Boat In his short story‚ ’The Open Boat‚’ Stephen Crane displays to us a universe completely indifferent to the affairs of humankind; we live in an apathetic world‚ in which man has to fight and struggle to live. The characters illustrated in the story come face-to-face with this indifference and all are nearly overcome by nature’s lack of concern with humanity. The survivors are alive primarily through determination and cooperation. We as human are alive because our constant
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Calder “The Open Boat” “The Open Boat” is a short story written by Steven Crane about four men stranded on a dinghy after their boat had sunk over night. The men were struggling to stay alive because it seemed as if they had no hope for survival. The four stranded shipmen were a correspondent‚ an oiler‚ a cook‚ and a captain. The theme of the story is that man has no control over his destinies and that nature controls everything. Naturalist themes prevail in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” as it demonstrates
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In “ The Open Boat” crane personifies elements in the nature as a factor which brings out the true human nature and test’s a person’s ability to survive‚ and work together rather than nature being an overwhelming destructive force. One does not have to end up being stranded on the open sea like the four men did to test their ability to survive‚ it exists in a variety of real world situation‚ but one has to see it as such. Although those situations may not require the same experience as the four men
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Paper 3: Open Boat By: Stephen Crane Setting plays a big role in stories‚ suggesting the mood and also the time and place of the story. Writers must create a picture with their words to establish visuals for their readers. To further help understand the purpose of setting we have the short story‚ “Open Boat”‚ by Stephen Crane. The story follows four men and their experience on the sunk steamer Commodore. Though any story can show you how setting plays a big role in works‚ Open Boat’s setting
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