Who is the injured man in the open boat?
"The Open Boat" is divided into seven sections, each told mainly from the point of view of the correspondent, based upon Crane himself. The first part introduces the four characters—"the correspondent", a condescending observer detached from the rest of the group; "the captain", who is injured and morose at having lost his ship, yet capable of leadership; "the cook", fat and comical, but optimistic that they will be rescued; and "the oiler", Billie, who is physically the strongest, and the only one in the story referred to by name. The four are survivors of a shipwreck, which occurred before the beginning of the story, and are drifting at sea in a small dinghy.
Which character is the injured man in the open boat?
captain the captain
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Who is the injured man in the open boat based on?
Edward Murphy
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"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.
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Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his ship, the SS Commodore, sank after hitting a sandbar. He and three other men were forced to navigate their way to shore in a small boat; one of the men, an oiler named Billie Higgins, drowned after the boat overturned.
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Crane was one of the last to leave the ship in a 10-foot (3.0 m) dinghy. He and three other men (including the captain, Edward Murphy) floundered off the coast of Florida for a day and a half before attempting to land their craft at Daytona Beach.
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"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane, which was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck. In the story, the captain is the injured man, who was based on Edward Murphy, the captain of the SS Commodore.