Stephen Crane's The Open Boat

Charles Coon

Professor Nancy Wack

American Literature Since the Civil War

30 October 2016

“The Open Boat”

Stephen Crane was one of those writers that focused his writings on naturalism.

Naturalism is where the story takes the characters within the story, and has nature take control of them. "The Open Boat." Became one of the best writings that Crane created on naturalism. In "The Open Boat," nature shows us that men cannot control their future, and that it controls everything. This is the theme of the poem and nature. Naturalist themes conquer in Stephen Crane's, "The Open Boat."

Crane writes his poems with great importance, and for naturalist writers he has to be one of the best. Crane shows us in his works on what naturalism does and how

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