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The warm welcome from everyone on shore contrasted greatly with the silence brought with the corpse that was carried onto the beach from the ocean waves. After their whole experience of surviving this, the lasting crew members perceived the waves and sounds of the ocean as something they could now fully understand.
Throughout “The Open Boat,” Crane uses an unique use of a shifting point of view. His story was written from the perspective of every crew member. The passages of dialogue, which the speakers are not ever identified, allows the reader to infer that every crew member shares a similar opinion over what is happening to them in their situation. The correspondent is the only character whose thoughts are identified. This is said to be because of the author’s ability to understand and relate to this character the most (“The Open