The Open Boat

The Open boat to me was a very complex and inspiring story. As the 4 men were stuck and trapped on a boat they never gave up hope believing that in some way they could be saved. As the story started off with all four men stuck at sea as a result of a mishap that occurred on their ship the captain, correspondent, cook and oilier all played a key role in the success of getting to the point of trying in some way to get help or reach land. Yet the story was sad in a way in that it was depressing to visualize the men stuck at sea and making every effort to escape the harshness of the sea at some point it got pretty boring. Also it was inspiring like I once stated because they triuphed over diversity and stared death in the eye knowing that they only had a small chance of making it to landing. The end of the story was baffling because the oilier died even though he honestly contributed the most to offer in the safety of himself and the men. To make a long story short I enjoyed the reading even though at some point I was not interested in reading the whole story.