Relationship between the Individual and Nature in "The Open Boat" From the start, the four characters in the aftermath of a shipwreck do not know "color from the sky." " but all know "the colors of the sea". This opening strongly suggests the symbolic situations in which human beings find themselves in the universe. The sky personifies the mysterious and inconceivable cause of reality, which humans cannot understand , and the sea symbolizes the earthly and mundane phenomenon that humans are supposed to perceive. The symbolic image generated by the above conflict involves the overall relationship between the individual and nature. Indeed, the daily life of human beings is. at the mercy of the uncontrollable waves of the sea; while, at the same time, most of reality remains unknown to weak and helpless humans. The human journey towards life is fundamentally weak, vulnerable and uncontrollable. on a dangerous and hopeless sea is described as "sea babies", it can be inferred that we are likely to be ignorant strangers in the universe. In addition to the danger we face, we also have to overcome. the new challenges of waves in daily life. These waves are “very unjustly and barbarously steep and high,” requiring “another leap, and another leap.” Thus, incessant troubles arising from human conditions often cause unpredictable crises because “shipwrecks are about nothing.” The small “open boat”, to which the characters desperately cling, symbolizes the conditions of weak, helpless and vulnerable human life since it is deprived of other protection due to shipwreck. The “open boat” also emphasizes the “open suggestion of despair” amid the wild waves of life. The boat's crew perceives their precarious fate as "absurd" and "absurd", so much so that they can sense the "tragic" aspect and "the coldness of the water". At this point, the question of why they are forced to be "trained" and "nibble the sacred cheese of life" raises a significant question about life itself. This pessimistic view of life reflects the helpless human condition as well as the limitations of human life. In accordance with the weak and vulnerable portrait of human beings, nature is depicted as dangerous and uncontrollable on the one hand; beautiful on the other. The tone of the waves is "thunderous and powerful" and the seagulls are considered "strange and sinister »..