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You might consider other works by Stephen Crane, such as The Red Badge of Courage.
Other short stories about accidents and survival include Margaret Atwood's "A Travel Piece." Compare to a more recent and fanciful work about surviving a shipwreck in Yann Martel's Life of Pi, or another man vs nature at sea near Cuba classic in Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea.
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The Question and Answer section for The Open Boat is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
This is mostly about how to handle challenges and hardships that are inevitable in life.
From the text:
The cook had tied a life-belt around himself in order to get even the warmth which this clumsy cork contrivance could donate, and he seemed almost stove-like when a rower, whose teeth invariably chattered wildly as soon as he ceased...
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