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The Open Boat Full Text - The Open Boat - Owl Eyes. By Stephen Crane. A Tale Intended to be after the Fact: Being the Experience of Four Men from the Sunk Steamer Commodore. I. N ONE OF THEM knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them.
A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a jumpy horse, and a horse is not much smaller. The boat was much like an animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse leaping over a high fence. The manner of her ride over these walls of water is a thing of mystery. Each wave required a new leap, and a leap from the air ...
THE OPEN BOAT. A Tale intended to be after the Fact. Being the Experience of Four Men from the Sunk Steamer 'Commodore' I. None of them knew the colour of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them.
Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and bar-barously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small-boat navigation.
The story is based on Crane's own experience as a correspondent aboard a ship that sank off the coast of Florida in 1896. Read the free full text. the full story summary, an in-depth character description of the correspondent, and explanations of important quotes from “The Open Boat.”.
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I. [1] None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, 1. save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea.