The correspondent went through much physical, mental, and emotional hardships during his long swim to the beach. He was already worn down from his previous days out in the water. This made the trip much harder for him.

The correspondent was mentally beat. The skies were playing with his emotions. The day of the long swim, he awoke to a morning of "splendor, with a sky of pure blue, and the sunlight flamed on the tips of the waves." This gave him a sense of calmness that would turn out to be anguish or aggravation. There was also a lookout tower that to his

inconvenience was not being used. He wonders to himself "if none ever ascended the tall wind-tower, and if they never looked seaward." He goes on to say that the tower

The beating that the correspondent received was a hard one to handle. He was tossed among the waves and physically drained. His emotional state was also harmed especially when the current caught him and he began asking himself, "Can it be possible?" Besides the current harming his mental state, it also effected him emotionally. It was a sort of panic when he was being dragged away. His long journey to the shore came up positive in the end however. The current didn't get him and neither did fatigue. He had survived the Open Boat.

represented "the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual."

physically to pursue the dry land. The current was once again pulling at him. But just as soon as he had been flung forward, he had help. It was a villager. A man that was "naked, naked as a tree in the winter, but a halo was about his head, and he shone like a saint." He helped the correspondent in his efforts to get to shore but was soon told to "Go" because not far from there, the oiler lay face down in the water. Assuming that the man was assisting the oiler, he laid himself down for he was too weak physically, mentally,

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