Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Open Boat.
Man and the Natural World Quotes
These waves
were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a
problem in small boat navigation. (1.2)
Philosophical Viewpoints: Proto-Existentialism Quotes
It was probably
splendid. It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights
of emerald and white and amber. (2.1)
Brotherhood Quotes
The birds sat
comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingy, for the wrath
of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a
thousand miles inland. (2.10)
Mortality Quotes
The injured
captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection
and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and
most enduring when, willy nilly...
Determination Quotes
"Well," said the cook, "perhaps it's
not a house of refuge that I'm thinking of as being near Mosquito Inlet Light.
Perhaps it's a life-saving station."
"We're not there yet," said the oiler, in
t...
Strength and Skill Quotes
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 s...