Teacher Guide

The Open Boat Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

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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