Problem: The four castaways in Crane's "The Open Boat" contemplate their insignificance in relation to the gravity and enormity of nature. One of them even assigns a malignancy to nature when he says "If I am to be drowned . . .why . . . was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?" This same notion seems to underlie both Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Creek" and Jack London's "To Build a Fire." Using evidence from the text[s] and your understanding of realism and naturalism