What does paragraph 17 reveal about the oiler in the Excerpt from "The Open Boat"? Use two details from The text to support your response.

Paragraph 17 reveal about the oiler that

An oiler is a junior role in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper, consisting mainly of keeping machinery lubricated. The primary job of a oiler is to lubricate the engine parts of a ship.

The oiler from the Excerpt from "The Open Boat" is also helping with ensuring the open boat does not sink.

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the answer of this question is not about the importance of oilers

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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i believe it is "“i’ll beat thee, but i would infect my hands.”

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