"The Open Boat" - Read (Unit 7)
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Who are the main characters in "The Open Boat"?
The captain, the oiler, the correspondent, and the cook.
Stephen Crane begins "The Open Boat" with the statement: "None of them knew the color of the sky." The point he is making is that
the men were so focused only on the sea, which was a constant threat, they hadn't looked at the sky.
Who dies in "The Open Boat"?
the oiler
Who are the "babes of the sea" that the narrator speaks of in Paragraphs 161 and 169 of "The Open Boat"?
the oiler and the cook
According to Paragraph 45 of "The Open Boat,"what did the crew do to speed their journey and give the oarsmen a rest?
They made a makeshift sail out of the captain's overcoat.
