The Open Boat

The Open Boat

“None of them knew the color of the sky.” This is the first sentence of Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” implies the overall relationship between the individual and nature. Now the question is where is God in this story? I believe that god is everywhere in this story, as these men in this boat are out in nature, which is where God is. These four men who lost their ship in a wreck are out in the sea in an open boat and are concentrating on the danger they are in that they are unaware to everything else. I think God is watching over them and guiding them, but they aren’t really paying attention to it. This is a story of struggling to survive in a very hostile world. The story is about a man’s relationship to the world of nature. These men are in a small boat in raging turbulent waters and make them think about their belief in God. The men have to come together as one and help each other, and when God sees they are working together, he will help them more. That is a lesson more of us in this world need to learn. Help yourself to receive help. Then all of a sudden, once God saw they were working together, he put in light a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light(p.337) . God is always there to help us; we just have to believe in him that he will carry us to safety. This is an inspiring story of true spiritualism and four men being able to come together to help each other out of a horrible situation. As the men were traveling north, hoping they would soon be ashore, the men were getting scared that no one would see, or find them out in the raging waters, they even thought they were going to drown. They were all so scared sitting in the dinghy. The tide changed forcing them in another direction, and the oiler was able to get the dinghy back on course and seen suddenly a man on shore, and they were all amazed by what they seen. The men swam toward the shore and when they finally reached land they were so happy to have gotten on shore....