(Jack London, To Build a Fire)
Presently the boat also passed to the left of the correspondent with the captain clinging with one hand to the keel. He would have appeared like a man raising himself to look over a board fence, if it were not for the extraordinary gymnastics of the boat. The correspondent marvelled that the captain could still hold to it.
They passed on, nearer to shore—the oiler, the cook, the captain—and following them went the water-jar, bouncing gayly over the seas.
The correspondent remained in the grip of this strange new enemy—a current. The shore, with its white slope of sand and its green bluff, topped with little silent cottages, was spread like a picture before him. It was very near to him then, but he was impressed as one who in a gallery looks at a scene from Brittany or Algiers.
He thought: "I am going to drown? Can it be possible? Can it be possible? Can it be possible?" Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."
(Stephen Crane, The Open Boat)
Answer:
Humanity's helplessness against nature
Explanation:
A theme is a message or a universal lesson that a literary work expresses about a topic and that we can apply to our lives or to other literary works. Very often, this message is not directly stated in the story so we need to figure it out.
In the excerpts, one theme that is common to the both of them is "Humanity's helplessness against nature" because in the first excerpt, the man is unable to control the nature of his body, his thoughts, his fears, his doubts, and is unable to act and react according to what he wanted: to reach camp and the boys, and in the second excerpt there is a similar situation: a character feels helpless to what they think is going to happen, he also feels unable to control their fears and their possible death.
Answer:
In both excerpts, each character is contemplating his own death.
Answer:
It means purely in terms of what is being represented
Explanation:
Answer:
YUMMY!
Explanation:
what exactly do you mean by this? it was very vague. could you possibly post it on here w the poem. i may be able to help :)