Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence in this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" is a metaphor that reflects the naturalistic theme that human life is insignificant before the workings of fate?
"The boat was headed for the beach. The correspondent wondered if none ever ascended the tall wind tower, and if then they never looked seaward. This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants.
It represented in a degree, to the correspondent, the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual."
"The coldness of the water was sad; it was tragic. This fact was somehow so mixed and confused with his opinion of his own situation that it seemed almost a proper reason for tears. The water was cold.
"The boat was headed for the beach. The correspondent wondered if none ever ascended the tall wind tower, and if then they never looked seaward. This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants.
It represented in a degree, to the correspondent, the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual."
The sentence in this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" that is a metaphor reflecting the naturalistic theme that human life is insignificant before the workings of fate is: "This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants."
The sentence that is a metaphor reflecting the naturalistic theme is:
"This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants."
To find this sentence, you can start by analyzing the given options. The first sentence does not contain a metaphor reflecting the theme. The second sentence includes emotions and opinions, but it is not a metaphor. Moving forward, we come across the sentence that compares the tower to a giant standing with its back to the plight of the ants. This metaphor signifies the insignificance of human life compared to the vastness and indifference of nature, thus reflecting the naturalistic theme of human life being insignificant before the workings of fate.