Analysis Of Own Story By Stephen Crane

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While reading Stephen Crane’s Own Story, the mysteriousness of the time period intrigued me. The only true description of the vast ocean made a broad scene allowing it to be set any day and age. However, engaging closer into the reading, unfamiliar terms, names, and equipment gave hints of the time period. As I started to understand the setting was in the 1890’s, I wanted to know how their technology affected their survival, and how the technology in 2016 would have saved them. The first technology comes when the ruin of the engine room sinks the boat. In the story, the malfunction of the engine ultimately ends up sinking the boat. However the real gamechanger was the boat they lowered to safety. The narrator describes the weight of the boat

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