<span>Based on the contextual information provided about author Stephen Crane, the theme that the last sentence of this excerpt from his short story "The Open Boat" likely reflects is that <u>nature is indifferent to humans.
</u>Nature is, in this case, the tower which looms over the destiny of tiny ants, or humans, and it doesn't really care what happens to us - it exists regardless of the fact whether we are there or not to witness its glory.<u>
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Misfortune
A family that loses their home in a storm is experiencing misfortune.
<u>YES</u>
I experienced misfortune when I lost my five dollar bill on the way to the store.
Mistaken
It is possible for a woman to be mistaken for her Identical twin sister
<u>Yes</u>
I'm often mistaken for somebody else as we have the same features.
Superstition
The idea that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day is a common superstition
<u>Yes</u>
One superstition I have heard is that if a black cat crosses your path you will fall to bad-luck and will experience misfortune.
A superstition that I had was that if you broke a mirror you would be cursed for 7 years. This influenced me from a young age not to destroy any reflective surfaces as we had a lot of those in the house. I believed that my parents tried to influence me/ tell me at a young age was so that feared of one day falling into misfortune which luckily never happened. I started to finally not believe the superstition when I opened my locker and my mirror fell and was everywhere and weeks past and nothing bad happened.
Hoped this helped in some way,
Jon
Answer: Our beliefs and needs are the strongest factors that govern our behaviour. Ultimately, it all comes down to beliefs because a need is also a belief- a belief that we lack something.
When we’re born, our brains aren’t fully developed. We’re ready to collect information from our environment and form beliefs based on that information. We’re ready to form those neural connections that are going to guide us for the rest of our lives.
If you’ve carefully observed a child grow then you know what I’m talking about. A child absorbs information from its environment so fast and at such a high rate that by age 6, thousands of beliefs form in its mind- beliefs that will help the kid interact with the world.
(hopefully this is what you mean)
