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Stephen Crane’s short story of the open boat is very symbolic in many ways. There are many ways to react to his paper and many different ways of looking at it. My views on it deal with life’s struggles and the many roads to be taken during life. The story starts with four men in a lifeboat stuck in a stormy sea. Included among these men are a cook, a correspondent, and oiler, and a captain. They are on a mission to their final destination. They finally see a lighthouse that marks their destination point. This means that they are not too far from land. Although land is not too far away, the waves of the sea takes the lifeboat and its crew on an expedition, making it even harder for them to get to land. The possibility of the destruction of the lifeboat and the crushing o