The open boat questions and answers

"A White Heron" and “The Open Boat” Read the stories, and complete the lesson. Then answer these questions, using examples from the stories to support your answers. Total score: ____ of 100 points (Score for Question 1: ___ of 30 points) Why is Sylvia so torn about whether the help the hunter? What does she decide to do? How is the entire episode depicted by Jewett in this story shown to be a rite of passage for Sylvia? Answer: Type your answer here. (Score for Question 2: ___ of 20 points) What qualities does Sarah Orne Jewett attribute to rural New England and its people in "A White Heron"? Do you think readers who hailed from this part of the country when the story was published in 1886 would have appreciated or agreed with Jewett's depiction of themselves and their region? Why or why not? Use examples from the story in support of your response. Answer: Type your answer here. (Score for Question 3: ___ of 20 points) Consider Stephen Crane’s story “The Open Boat.” Describe and explain the feelings that the men in the boat have toward nature, fate, and their fellow human beings as they are able to make their way close to land but are unable to reach it and the safety it offers. Cite specific examples and details from the text in your response. Answer: Type your answer here. (Score for Question 4: ___ of 30 points) In "The Open Boat," Stephen Crane includes the following passage as the likelihood of the men surviving their ordeal continues to diminish: When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers. Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: “Yes, but I love myself.”  What is Crane saying in this passage? How can this passage be understood as an expression of some of the primary tenets of naturalism? Answer: Type your answer here. A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett I The woods were already filled with shadows one June evening, just before eight o’clock, though a bright sunset still glimmered faintly among the trunks of the trees. A little girl was driving home her cow, a plodding, dilatory, provoking creature in her behavior, but a valued companion for all that. They were going away from whatever light there was, and striking deep into the woods, but their feet were familiar with the path, and it was no matter whether their eyes could see it or not. There was hardly a night the summer through when the old cow could be found waiting at the pasture bars; on the contrary, it was her greatest pleasure to hide herself away among the high huckleberry bushes, and though she wore a loud bell she had made the discovery that if one stood perfectly still it would not ring. So Sylvia had to hunt for her until she found her, and call Co’! Co’! with never an answering Moo, until her childish patience was quite spent. If the creature had not given good milk and plenty of it, the case would have seemed very different to her owners. Besides, Sylvia had all the time there was, and very little use to make of it. Sometimes in pleasant weather it was a consolation to look upon the cow’s pranks as an intelligent attempt to play hide and seek, and as the child had no playmates she lent herself to this amusement with a good deal of zest.