Therefore, nature has no feelings towards the four men whether they lived or died. Nature was not sympathetic to their situation. In the first line of the story, Crane said "none of them knew the color of the sky" (Perkins 103), which symbolized that the boat's occupants did not understand nature. Crane used this phrase to show that the occupiers did not understand nature and what it could or could not do to their situation. Crane uses different symbols in nature to prove that humans were not connected to nature and that if they had been more connected their outcome could have turned out to be