After you have finished reading "The Open Boat," answer these questions. Be sure to provide quotes from the story to support your answers when directed to do so by the question.

1. Summarize the story’s plot. In what way does the plot express themes common to naturalism?
2. In the space below, copy and paste a passage from “The Open Boat” that expresses a principle of
naturalism explicitly rather than implicitly.

3. In the space below, copy and paste a passage that expresses a theme or principle of Naturalism implicitly. Then in your own words, state the theme that is suggested but not stated directly in the passage you chose.

4. What “saves” the correspondent, cook, and captain in the end? (Why do they survive but not the
oiler?)

5. How does the structure of the story support its theme?

6. What effect does the story’s structure have on readers