One of America’s best novelist, poets, and short-story writers was Stephen Crane. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 1, 1871, he was his parent’s fourteenth (and last) child. Crane spent less then two years in collage and then went to New York to live in a medical students’ boardinghouse while freelancing his way to a literary career. One of Stephen Crane’s best short stories was “The Open Boat”. The main characters were the …showed first 75 words of 950 total…

…showed last 75 words of 950 total…it. It was their fate that their steamer crashes. And it was there fate that three of them make it too shore alive. It was the oiler time to die and he couldn’t escape it even if he would have swum harder. He was struggling the whole time and it was his fate to go down. I learned that you never know what your fate is and when it comes you cannot escape it.