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 oiler?) 5. How does the structure of the story support its theme? 6. What effect does the story’s structure have on readers?

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!