Psychologicalism In The Open Boat

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"The Open boat" directly tells the readers that facing the power of nature is actually a test of a person 's psychological strength rather than the physical strength. Throughout the story, multiple ways are used to depict characters ' emotion, mentality, and behaviors by the Author. Furthermore, the author shows the reader the importance of psychological strength and how effective it is to influence others by using one 's psychological strength. At the beginning of the story, the author used most of the contents to describe the characters ' psychological movement. From the sentences they talked and the behaviors they made whether before or after sailing, the readers quickly understand who and what the character will play the part of. Such …show more content…

" It takes an anxious eye to find a lighthouse so tiny"(Page 202) described him as a child. Imagine when a five-year-old child proudly tells his mom that he found a squirrel in their backyard. The captain never gave up hope, but hope did not make the captain dizzy with the new discovery. "Said the captain, seriously." (Page 202), the captain still kept steady after finding the land. Even though the open boat is filled with happiness, the author by no means consider to left the captain 's willpower behind. On the contrary, the author described him with great psychological strength by keeping calm and keeping everything in …show more content…

Instead of getting any help from others, the author arranges the crews went ashore by themselves. However, destructive waves made the crews have no choice but to jump off the boat. "Called the captain." Furthermore, it 's hard to imagine that a person would give the chance of surviving to others, but the captain did. "but the captain waved him away and sent him to the correspondent." (Page 214) the captain knew at that time, the correspondent needed the help more than he did. The author described the captain with the high-quality psychological strength which cannot be crushed by any destructive strength and based on the book, his psychological strength did lead the crew members out from the open sea. "The Open Boat" is not just a book shows how terrible nature can be. The author left the readers with the great impression of the captain 's psychological strength. Nature is not something that human can ignore. However, with the psychological strength, at least we will have the wisdom to avoid them from harming us. Just like the captain did in the story, which successfully got everyone out of

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