Stephen crane
Stephen craneOne of Stephen Crane�s greatest short fiction stories is �The Open Boat� by Stephen Crane views fate like it is inevitable, and sure it is. Who can get away from their destiny, their fate? No one can get away from it. This statement is true about the sailors in the boat also. First, their fate starts when their boat capsizes and they have to rescue themselves in to one dinghy, all these men and an injured captain in one small boat. The weather is really bad; there are some big waves on the ocean this day. The waves are so big sometimes that the sky just disappears between the big waves. The rain is pouring down, and the wind blows like a jet engine. They almost cannot hear themselves speaking to one another, so it is more of a shouting conversation. Then in the cold night, a seagull appears to the sailor�s sadness. The seagull has its freedom, and it can do as it pleases, but the men are bound to stay in their small dinghy. Then all of a sudden, land is in sight. All the men start to get their hopes up, because they think that they are now going to be saved. They see some people on the beach and try to get their attention, but unfortunately the crowd on the beach could not see the men in the small dinghy. Then a series of huge waves comes tumbling towards the men in the dinghy; it capsizes. Now all the men are in the water, and one pictures them desperately trying to swim ashore. When they all had swum like crazy for a while, every body was saved, except the sailor Billy. He had been struggling the most out of everybody, even though a life jacket past him he still kept on struggling and trying. The odds were against him. Even if he really wanted to reach ashore he could not make it, because his fate was waiting for him. Stephen Crane has written not one but many short fiction stories like this one and as one keeps reading them you get a better understanding of who Stephen Crane really was and where he comes from.
It is not surprising for an author�s background and surroundings to profoundly affect his writing. Having come from a Methodist ancestry and living at a time when the church was still an influential aspect in people�s daily lives, Stephen Crane was deeply instilled with religious beliefs. However, fear of retribution soon turned to dejection and criticism of his idealistic parents� God, "the wrathful Jehovah of the Old Testament" as he was confronted with the harsh realities of war as a journalistic correspondent. Making extensive use of religious metaphors and allusions in The Blue Hotel (1898), Crane thus explores the interlaced themes of the sin and virtue.
"The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane is a classic example of harmony vs. abnormality. To be more specific, the notable...
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