Stephen Crane: The Open Boat <Tab/>There are many good short stories in this world, but how many of them can captivate the reader in such a short amount of time like that of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." As a reader of this story one may feel as if they too were on the boat with these men. Not just any writer could activate the reader in such a manner …showed first 75 words of 1106 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1106 total…characters is unsurpassed. Had this talented young author lived to write more stories, who knows the extent to how American literature would be different today? Works Cited The Open Boat. University of Illinois at Chicago. April 18, 2004. <http://www.UIC.edu>. Naturalism in The Open Boat. Ed. Voegele, Jason. Feb. 5, 2004. April 18, 2004. <http://www. jvoegele.com>. Perkins, George, et al., eds. The American Tradition in Literature. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.