13. 8R2 - Which excerpt confirms the theme of the ocean being relentless and indifferent in "Excerpt from The Open Boat"?

A. "Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea." (Paragraph 2)

B. "The correspondent, pulling at the other oar, watched the waves and wondered why he was there." (Paragraph 5)

C. "As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water." (Paragraph 10)

D. "In the wan light, the faces of the men must have been grey. Their eyes must have glinted in strange ways as they gazed steadily astern." (Paragraph 11)

"As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water."

Explanation:

The open boat was an account of survival of shipwreck by a correspondent. It was first published by Stephen Crane in 1897.

It states the experience of Crane a newspaper correspondent that was involved in a shipwreck of the coast of Florida on his way to Cuba.

He and 3 other men navigated their way to shore in a boat.

The excerpt that confirms the theme of the ocean being relentless and indifferent is - "As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water."

This portrays the way the ocean had control of their boat, and persistence in how it tries to capsize them.