Throughout the text "The Open Boat" Crane vividly describes the ocean. He speaks of it's constant movement, change in colors, and temperature. The ocean is the biggest adversary to the men in the boat. They are trying to survive the ocean's constant attempts to sink them and pull them away from land. In this story, the setting is also the antagonist.
Jonas's father described Release as "cleaning him (the baby) up and gets him comfy, performs a Ceremony of Release, and waves bye bye."
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Chapter 2 summary:
After coming back from Connecticut, Mitty had tons of homework, not to mention, ten pages of notes. At school the next day, his friend Derek, goes on and on about the anthrax murders. After school, Mitty starts on his notes, but decides to skip to his rough draft instead. Mitty continued to read about smallpox, everything happening to the people he is reading about could be happening to him too