Question

Which parts of this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" describe the narrator's opinion of the sea as a hostile entity?

Answer 1

B) there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective
                                  AND
E) this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean,

Answer 2

Answer:

Options B and E are the correct answers.

Explanation:

Stephen Crane was one of the main figures in Realist literature. He was an American poet but he also explored some other fields of narrative such as short stories and novels. The Open Boat is one of his short stories and it is based on his own experience after a shipwreck off the coast off Florida. The parts that show the narrator's opinion of the sea as a hostile entity are "there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective" and "this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean."