Question

b. Where were the four men sailing? What problem did they face?
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Answer 1

Answer:

As the story opens, four men: a cook, a correspondent, an oiler and a captain, are in a lifeboat in stormy seas. They are off the coast of Florida, just after their ship has sunk.

The main conflict of "The Open Boat" is man versus nature, which takes form in the men's own exhaustion and the threat of the ocean. The climax occurs when the men decide to swim to shore.

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