Which parts of this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" describe the narrator's opinion of the sea as a hostile entity?

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy. As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water.

*One or more answers accepted***

A) after successfully surmounting one wave

B) there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective

C) the resources of the sea in the line of waves

D) it shut all else from the view of the men

E) this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean,

F) the last effort of the grim water.

B) there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective
AND
E) this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean,

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jkoyocku jkoyocku · Answer 2 · 2020-03-18T02:24:23+01:00

Answer:

Options B and E are the correct answers.

Explanation:

Stephen Crane was one of the main figures in Realist literature. He was an American poet but he also explored some other fields of narrative such as short stories and novels. The Open Boat is one of his short stories and it is based on his own experience after a shipwreck off the coast off Florida. The parts that show the narrator's opinion of the sea as a hostile entity are "there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective" and "this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean."