We receive short or non-existent descriptions of the crew members. All we know is that the cook has big forearms and the captain is injured. These descriptions leave it up to the reader to create these characters in their mind, in doing so they create a personal connection. In many ways, the reader can identify with the crew members. The caller (also the narrator) says, "If I'm going to drown, why...was I allowed to come all the way here..." It's descriptive, powerful, and relevant, making people start thinking to their own situation. try their best but they don't always succeed. If everything we do will never be good enough, then why try? At this point, people begin to clamor and demand an explanation from the god they worship. our past. The correspondent relates this to his childhood when he saw a dying soldier and felt like it wasn't important, but now when he finds himself in this situation he realizes how it was “severe, sad and good”. Specific descriptions of the boat and the water are constantly given. Crane personifies non-living things and gives them more importance than the main characters. The point of view/descriptions of the boat and water change throughout the story! and dangerously high at first but as men begin to lose hope and defy the gods, water is no longer mentioned and if it is its calm. Moreover, seagulls fly and the weather does not change regardless of the situation of men. Thus reinforcing the idea that nature is indifferent to man. Crew members desperately use confirmation bias, the tendency to seek or