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

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

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is different from honey. it offers a stronger sweet flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. in the age of sugar, europeans bought a product made thousands of miles away that was less expensive than the honey from down the road. that was possible only because sugar set people in motion all across the world—millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search of their fortunes. a perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: that is the dark story of sugar. how does the comparison of sugar to honey reveal the authors’ purpose? it persuades readers that sugar tastes better than honey. it informs readers that there is a connection between slavery and sugar. it informs readers that honey had a major impact on society. it persuades readers that sugar is as important an invention as steel.

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage

1.at the trials, she won both the 50 and 100 meter freestyle events. 2.her last olympic appearance was at the 2000 sydney games. 3.now her sights are set on olympic history at the 2008 beijing games. 4.dara torres is an amazing swimmer who qualified at the olympic trials to become the oldest olympic female swimmer. 5.with that excellent performance, she is eligible to contend for a medal at the olympics. what is the most logical order for these sentences?