This paper will describe the Heart Of Darkness and The Open Boat in section A format. I will try to describe why Marlowe is on his journey and I will explain the characters mindset in The Open Boat. I will try to get as deep as I can with what the characters are thinking about and why they decide to choose the paths that they take.The characters in The Open Boat face several terrifying problems and they have to work hard at dealing with these problems or else they will face certain death. Basically there are four men trapped in a life boat striving to find their way to land. They were on another boat before called the Commodore, which was a steamer. Apparently the boat went down and whether those were the only four men to survive or not is irrelevant because this story is intended to be after the fact. The characters on this boat are the Cook, the Captain, the Correspondent, and the Oilier. At their first part of the journey on their little craft they are pretty determined to find land. Naturally. When humans are confronted with the struggle to stay alive, the determination factor of doing whatever you have to is very strong. These men know that they will have to find land in order to survive, therefore they will do everything extreme, or at least as extreme as they can get in order to find land and save their lives. Nature is testing them all along the way also. There is the struggle that they are being bounced and thrashed around constantly by huge gushing waves and every time these waves hit them it unloads vicious water in their boat. These men have to be on full alert and fight to remove the water or else the boat will flood and they will sink, loosing their lives by drowning or hypothermia. If the craft tips over it could be thrown away by the waves and the men would not be able to reach it, or it could hit one of them in the head knocking him unconscious. The possibilities of death are endless and the men know th...
