OM NEWS # 366

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Hoy presentamos – en audio y texto más una actividad práctica – la primera parte de la novela breve más relevante del escritor Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat", reconocido como "el Anton Chejov de la literatura norteamericana"

En esta novela, Crane recrea una experiencia real que vivió en 1896 durante el naufragio del barco en el que viajaba hacia Cuba para trabajar como corresponsal de guerra. El escritor transforma ese momento crítico de su vida en una magistral narración en la que muestra la experiencia límite de cuatro hombres que luchan por sobrevivir ante la indiferencia del océano.

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EL BOTE ABIERTO - Stephen Crane - Parte 1/3. La experiencia límite de cuatro hombres que luchan por sobrevivir ante la indiferencia del océano.

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THE OPEN BOAT - Stephen Crane

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Our story today is called “The Open Boat.” It was written by Stephen Crane and is based on what really happened to him in 1896.
is based on: se basa en; what really: lo que genuinamente;

Crane was traveling from the United States to Cuba as a newspaper reporter. One night, his ship hit a sandbar. It sank in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida. Most of the people on board got into lifeboats. Crane was among the last to leave. There were three others with him: the ship’s captain, the cook, and a sailor.
hit a sandbar: chocó contra un banco de arena; it sank: naufragó (sink / sank / sunk); off the coast: lejos de la costa; lifeboats: botes salvavidas; among the last to leave: entre los últimos en abandonar (el barco);

These four men climbed into the only remaining lifeboat. The boat was so small that no one believed it could stay afloat for very long. None of the four men thought he would ever reach the shore. But the men fought the rough seas bravely, with all their strength. Would they finally reach land? Here is Shep O’Neal with the first part of the story...
climbed into: se subieron a; the only remaining: el único que quedaba libre; stay afloat: mantenerse a flote; for very long: por mucho tiempo; none: ninguno; reach the shore: alcanzar la costa cubana; fought: combatieron (fight / fought / fought); rough seas: mares embravecidos; bravely: valientemente; strength: fortaleza;

The small lifeboat bounced from wave to wave in the rough seas of the Atlantic. The four men in the boat could not see the sky. The waves rose too high.
bounced: daba tumbos; rose too high: se elevaban demasiado alto;

The waves with their white tops pushed at the open boat with angry violence. Every man thought each wave would be his last. Surely, the boat would sink and he would drown. The men thought that most adults would need a bathtub larger than the boat they were sailing. The waves were huge, and each created a problem in guiding the direction of the boat.
white tops: puntas repletas de espuma; he would drown: se ahogaría; bathtub: bañera; huge: enormes;

For two days, since the ship sank, the four men had been struggling to reach land. But there was no land to be seen. All the men saw were violent waves which rose and came fiercely down on them.
for: durante; struggling to reach land: luchando por llegar a tierra; came fiercely down on: caían ferozmente sobre;

The men sat in the boat, wondering if there was any hope for them. The ship’s cook sat in the bottom of the boat. He kept looking at the fifteen centimeters which separated him from the ocean.
wondering: preguntándose; in the bottom: en el fondo;

The boat had only two wooden oars. They were so thin – it seemed as if they would break against the waves. The sailor, named Billie, directed the boat’s movement with one of the oars. The newspaper reporter pulled the second oar. He wondered why he was there in the boat.
wooden oars: remos de madera;

The fourth man was the captain of the ship that had sunk. He lay in the front of the small boat. His arm and leg were hurt when the ship sank. The captain’s face was sad. He had lost his ship and many of his sailors. But he looked carefully ahead, and he told Billie when to turn the boat.
that had sunk: que se había hundido; were hurt: se lastimaron; ahead: al frente;

“Keep her a little more south, Billie,” he said.
“A little more south, sir,” the sailor repeated.
keep her ... more south: apunta el bote más al sur (los marinos suelen hablar de sus embarcaciones como personas y en femenino; por ello, el capitán no dice "keep it");

Sitting in the boat was like sitting on a wild horse. As each wave came, the boat rose and fell, like a horse starting toward a fence too high to jump. The problem was that after successfully floating over one wave you find that there is another one behind it just as strong and ready to flood your boat.
wild horse: caballo salvaje; as each wave came: a medida que se acercaban las olas; rose and fell: se levantaba en el aire y caía de golpe; starting toward a fence: intentando saltar una cerca; too high to jump: demasiado elevada para cruzarla; ready to flood: dispuesta a inundar;

As each wall of water came in, it hid everything else that the men could see. The waves came in silence; only their white tops made threatening noises.
it hid: tapaba (hide / hid / hidden); white tops: extremos espumosos; threatening noises: sonidos amenazadores;

In the weak light, the faces of the men must have looked gray. Their eyes must have shone in strange ways as they looked out at the sea. The sun rose slowly into the sky. The men knew it was the middle of the day because the color of the sea changed from slate gray to emerald green, with gold lights. And the white foam on the waves looked like falling snow.
in the weak light: a la luz débil (de la noche); must have looked gray: debieron verse apagadas; must have shone: debieron brillar (shine / shone / shone); rose slowly: salió lentamente; slate gray: gris pizarra; emerald green: verde esmeralda; gold lights: reflejos dorados; white foam: espuma blanca; falling snow: nieve cayendo;

As the lifeboat bounced from the top of each wave, the wind tore through the hair of the men. As the boat dropped down again the water fell just past them. The top of each wave was a hill, from which the men could see, for a brief period, a wide area of shining sea.
as: mientras; bounced: rebotaba; tore through: pasaba arrasando (tear / tore / torn); dropped down again: volvía a caer; fell just past them: les caía encima; was a hill: era como una colina; for a brief period: durante un breve lapso;

The cook said the men were lucky because the wind was blowing toward the shore. If it started blowing the other way, they would never reach land. The reporter and the sailor agreed. But the captain laughed in a way that expressed humor and tragedy all in one. He asked: “Do you think we’ve got much of a chance now, boys?”
toward the shore: hacia la costa; the other way: en dirección opuesta; agreed: estuvieron de acuerdo; all in one: todo junto; much of a chance: en gran medida una oportunidad (de llegar);

This made the others stop talking. To express any hope at this time they felt to be childish and stupid. But they also did not want to suggest there was no hope. So they were silent.
childish: inmaduro, pueril; so they were silent: así que se mantenían callados;

“Oh, well,” said the captain, “We’ll get ashore all right.”
But there was something in his voice that made them think, as the sailor said: “Yes, if this wind holds!”
get ashore all right: alcanzar la costa en condiciones;

Seagulls flew near and far. Sometimes the birds sat down on the sea in groups, near brown seaweed that rolled on the waves. The anger of the sea was no more to them than it was to a group of chickens a thousand miles away on land. Often the seagulls came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes. The men shouted angrily at them, telling them to be gone.
seagulls: las gaviotas; rolled on: daba vueltas; anger: furia; stared at: miraban fijamente; black bead-like eyes: ojos como perlas negras; shouted angrily at them: las espantaban a grito pelado;

The sailor and the reporter kept rowing with the thin wooden oars. Sometimes they sat together, each using an oar. Sometimes one would pull on both oars while the other rested. Brown pieces of seaweed appeared from time to time. They were like islands, bits of earth that did not move. They showed the men in the boat that it was slowly making progress toward land.
kept rowing: seguían remando; rested: descansaba; seaweed: algas marinas; slowly making progress: que avanzaban lentamente; towards land: hacia tierra;

Hours passed. Then, as the boat was carried to the top of a great wave, the captain looked across the water. He said that he saw the lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet. The cook also said he saw it. The reporter searched the western sky.
hours passed: pasaban las horas; the lighthouse at: el faro de; Mosquito inlet: la ensenada de Mosquito (hoy en día, Faro Ponce de León); searched: inspeccionó;

“See it?” said the captain.
“No,” said the reporter slowly, “I don’t see anything.”
“Look again,” said the captain. He pointed. “It’s exactly in that direction.”
pointed: señaló con su mano;

This time the reporter saw a small thing on the edge of the moving horizon. It was exactly like the point of a pin.
the point of a pin: la punta de un alfiler;

“Think we’ll make it, captain?” he asked.
“If this wind holds and the boat doesn’t flood, we can’t do much else,” said the captain.
we'll make it?: ¿que lo lograremos?; holds: se mantiene; doesn't flood: no se inunda; we can't do much else: mucho más no podemos hacer.

ACTIVITY (correct answers at the bottom)

1. Why were the four men in the small boat?
a. The ship they rode on had engine problems.
b. Their ship was stuck on a rock in the ocean.
c. The ship they rode on hit a sandbar and sank.
d. Their ship carried too many people and sank.

2. Who worked hard to move the boat?
a. The cook and the captain used the oars.
b. The sailor and the reporter rowed the boat.
c. The captain and the reporter worked hard to direct the boat.
d. The cook and the sailor rowed hard to make the boat move.

3. What gave the men some hope for rescue?
a. The captain told them they had a good chance of reaching land.
b. The reporter told them where to find an island.
c. The cook and sailor thought the wind was going to change.
d. They heard the fog horn from a lighthouse.

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ACTIVITY ANSWERS.

1. Why were the four men in the small boat?
a. The ship they rode on had engine problems.
b. Their ship was stuck on a rock in the ocean.
c. The ship they rode on hit a sandbar and sank.
d. Their ship carried too many people and sank.

2. Who worked hard to move the boat?
a. The cook and the captain used the oars.
b. The sailor and the reporter rowed the boat.
c. The captain and the reporter worked hard to direct the boat.
d. The cook and the sailor rowed hard to make the boat move.

3. What gave the men some hope for rescue?
a. The captain told them they had a good chance of reaching land.
b. The reporter told them where to find an island.
c. The cook and sailor thought the wind was going to change.
d. They heard the fog horn from a lighthouse.

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